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Prediction:

This ban will be used to force hardware and OS-level Digital ID down our throats as a "safety measure" to ensure people are "Citizens" before accessing AI technology.

Whatever last vestiges of privacy we still enjoy will be taken from us with this as the excuse.

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If it were to remain export controlled, it would probably not be accessible direct to consumers. Other export controlled technologies (aerospace, nuclear propulsion) are only worked with by companies that spend a lot of time and money to prove that there are only US citizens working there.

That's a great point. I'm probably wrong, but I still don't think they'll waste this opportunity to figure out how to cram digital id through.

Perhaps that will be how they will make it more broadly available.

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