{"id":100568,"date":"2020-01-07T03:23:45","date_gmt":"2020-01-07T11:23:45","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/lifeboat.com\/blog\/2020\/01\/i-spy-with-my-little-satellite-ai-something-beginning-with-north-american-image-analysis-code-embargo"},"modified":"2020-01-07T03:23:45","modified_gmt":"2020-01-07T11:23:45","slug":"i-spy-with-my-little-satellite-ai-something-beginning-with-north-american-image-analysis-code-embargo","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/lifeboat.com\/blog\/2020\/01\/i-spy-with-my-little-satellite-ai-something-beginning-with-north-american-image-analysis-code-embargo","title":{"rendered":"I spy, with my little satellite AI, something beginning with \u2018North American image-analysis code embargo\u2019"},"content":{"rendered":"<p><a class=\"aligncenter blog-photo\" href=\"https:\/\/lifeboat.com\/blog.images\/i-spy-with-my-little-satellite-ai-something-beginning-with-north-american-image-analysis-code-embargo.jpg\"><\/a><\/p>\n<p>The US government has placed software designed to train neural networks to analyse satellite images under new export controls in a bid to prevent foreign adversaries using said code.<\/p>\n<p>The decision, made by Uncle Sam\u2019s Bureau of Industry and Security (BIS), is effective today. Vendors shipping software subject to the controls \u2013 in that the applications help machine learning systems annotate satellite images in a particular way \u2013 will have to apply for a license to sell their products to customers outside of the US and Canada.<\/p>\n<p>\u201cItems warrant control for export because the items may provide a significant military or intelligence advantage to the United States or because foreign policy reasons justify control,\u201d the BIS <a target=\"_blank\" rel=\"nofollow\" href=\"https:\/\/www.federalregister.gov\/documents\/2020\/01\/06\/2019-27649\/addition-of-software-specially-designed-to-automate-the-analysis-of-geospatial-imagery-to-the-export\">said<\/a>.<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>The US government has placed software designed to train neural networks to analyse satellite images under new export controls in a bid to prevent foreign adversaries using said code. The decision, made by Uncle Sam\u2019s Bureau of Industry and Security (BIS), is effective today. Vendors shipping software subject to the controls \u2013 in that the [\u2026]<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":396,"featured_media":0,"comment_status":"open","ping_status":"closed","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"footnotes":""},"categories":[1490,9,31,6],"tags":[],"class_list":["post-100568","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","hentry","category-government","category-military","category-policy","category-robotics-ai"],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/lifeboat.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/100568","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/lifeboat.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/lifeboat.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/lifeboat.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/users\/396"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/lifeboat.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=100568"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"https:\/\/lifeboat.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/100568\/revisions"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/lifeboat.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=100568"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/lifeboat.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=100568"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/lifeboat.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=100568"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}