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Western Export Restrictions Include AI, Hypersonics If Russia Invades Ukraine

By Cal Biesecker

Friday, February 18th, 2022

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Western Export Restrictions Include AI, Hypersonics If Russia Invades Ukraine

The costs to Russia if it invades Ukraine include export controls of high-technology such as artificial intelligence, hypersonic flight technologies and robotics, all key ingredients of Russian President Vladimir Putin’s hopes to diversify his country’s economy away from an over reliance on oil and gas exports, a White House official said last Friday. Some of the additional restricted exports would also include quantum, semiconductor and bio-technologies, Daleep Singh, deputy national security adviser for international economics, said during a White House…

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