back to article Uncle Sam relies on manual processes to oversee restrictions on Huawei, other Chinese tech players

The Bureau of Industry and Security (BIS) – the agency Washington relies on to implement export licensing controls to ensure sanctioned technology doesn't reach certain nations – revealed on Tuesday it's struggling to handle a massively increased workload caused by the ever-growing number of Chinese companies added to the US …

  1. PB90210 Silver badge

    "a heavily manual process ... a method it acknowledged occupies considerable resources and subjects it to the risk of human error"

    A good candidate for AI... erm, possibly not

    1. Strahd Ivarius Silver badge
      Coat

      AI is not yet needed.

      Just host everything on MS cloud, and let the Chinese correct any mistake in the data.

    2. martinusher Silver badge

      Punch cards and tabulators might be a good start towards process automation for them.

  2. Anonymous Coward
    Anonymous Coward

    The problem they have ..

    .. is that everything they need to modernise .. is made in China.

    :)

  3. Anonymous Coward
    Anonymous Coward

    "The rest (worth an even larger $545 billion) were denied or revoked."

    $545 billion would go a long way toward balancing US' trade deficit with China ($297 billion in 2023).

  4. ecofeco Silver badge
    FAIL

    Having worked in government

    Having worked in government, it becomes abundantly clear there are two reasons that are sometime separate and sometimes combined, for antiquated bureaucratic processing.

    One is deliberate under-funding buy the politician. This occurs for many reasons, none of which benefits the average person.

    The second is fear of job loss by the department managers who cannot adapt to new technology.

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