AI chips are a strategically decisive technology. The quality of the AI models built on these chips will have geopolitical implications. It is vital for U.S. national security that U.S. AI chips are not used to power its adversaries capabilities, but current export controls have been exploited by sophisticated bad actors. It is time for export controls to be as technically sophisticated as the devices they govern.
In this joint report with the American Security Fund, we explore how location verification can help policymakers and industry leaders close chip smuggling loopholes and strengthen semiconductor export controls.
What you’ll learn
In this report, you’ll learn how to:
- Verify the real-world location of advanced AI chips
- Detect and prevent chip diversion at scale
- Understand how latency-based location verification works
- Strengthen export controls with technical enforcement
- Apply proven location intelligence to national security challenges
The challenge
Advanced AI chips are among the most strategically important technologies in the world—but today’s export controls weren’t built to track them after deployment.
As global demand accelerates, enforcement gaps are growing.
Some of the biggest challenges include:
- Lack of Post-Export Visibility: Current export controls depend on declared destinations, not real-world verification. Once chips leave the factory, exporters and regulators have limited ability to verify where they are actually deployed—creating critical blind spots.
- Sophisticated Smuggling Networks: Bad actors exploit transshipment routes, shell companies, and intermediary jurisdictions to divert chips to unauthorized destinations.
- Resource Constraints in Enforcement: Monitoring global infrastructure and data centers at scale is complex, leaving regulators unable to keep pace with the speed of AI supply chains.
Location intelligence is already used to enforce compliance in highly regulated industries. Now, it can play a critical role in securing the future of AI infrastructure.
Fill out the form on the right to download the whitepaper to learn how location verification can strengthen export controls in the AI age.
