I'm guessing this is at the request of Google, Amazon, OpenAI, and Microsoft. The goal IMO is for only their AIs to be sanctioned; everything else is criminal.
"President Biden is convening seven leading AI companies at the White House today – Amazon, Anthropic, Google, Inflection, Meta, Microsoft, and OpenAI – to announce that the Biden-Harris Administration has secured voluntary commitments from these companies to help move toward safe, secure, and transparent development of AI technology."
https://www.whitehouse.gov/briefing-room/statements-releases...
"President Biden is convening seven leading AI companies at the White House today – Amazon, Anthropic, Google, Inflection, Meta, Microsoft, and OpenAI – to announce that the Biden-Harris Administration has secured voluntary commitments from these companies to help move toward safe, secure, and transparent development of AI technology."