US lawmakers recently proposed a ban on government agencies using Chinese AI models such as DeepSeek. The “No Adversarial AI Act” was introduced to the House of Representatives by two members of the Select Committee on the Chinese Communist Party.
It proposes the creation of a permanent framework for barring the use of all Chinese models from US executive agencies, in addition to those from Russia, Iran and North Korea. The framework would include a list, created by the Federal Acquisition Security Council, with the names of AI models created in the countries in question and be regularly updated.
US government agencies would not be able to access the models or use the AI technologies without an exemption, such as for research. John Moolenaar, who chairs the Select Committee, stated “the US must draw a hard line: hostile AI systems have no business operating inside our government”.
He continued: “This legislation creates a permanent firewall to keep adversary AI out of our most sensitive networks – where the cost of compromise is simply too high”. The move comes after a senior State Department official told Reuters DeepSeek was aiding China’s military and intelligence operations, while having access to large volumes of Nvidia chips.
Source: Mobile World Live
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