The White House is proposing requiring US cloud companies to determine whether foreign entities are accessing US data centers to train artificial intelligence (AI) models, US Secretary of Commerce Gina Raimondo said on Friday. “We can’t have non-state actors or China or folks who we don’t want accessing our cloud to train their models,” Raimondo said in an interview. “We use export controls on chips,” she said. “Those chips are in American cloud data centers, so we also have to think about closing down that avenue for potential malicious activity.” The proposed “know your customer” regulation was released on Friday for public inspection and is to be published tomorrow. She further said, 'the US is “trying as hard as we can to deny China the compute power that they want to train their own [AI] models, but what good is that if they go around that to use our cloud to train their models?”.