DEV Community

Cover image for Why export controlled technical data cannot go to cloud AI
Micky Irons
Micky Irons

Posted on • Originally published at mickai.co.uk

Why export controlled technical data cannot go to cloud AI

Cloud AI must decrypt technical data to process it, which breaks the ITAR encryption carve-out and turns provider staff into deemed export exposure, so on premise, air gapped review is the defensible route.

A cloud AI service has to decrypt technical data to work on it, and the moment it does, the ITAR section 120.54 encryption carve-out no longer applies. We explain why the defensible route for AI on export controlled data is review on your own hardware, air gapped, with every action sealed.


Originally published on mickai.co.uk. This is a cross-post; the canonical version, with the full body, footnotes and references, lives on the mickai.co.uk article page.

cover

Top comments (0)