SAN FRANCISCO, June 25 (Reuters) – A bipartisan group of U.S. lawmakers on Wednesday planned to introduce a bill in both houses of Congress that would bar U.S. executive agencies from using artificial intelligence models developed in China, including those from DeepSeek.
The introduction of the bill, dubbed the “No Adversarial AI Act,” comes after Reuters reported that a senior U.S. official has concluded that DeepSeek is aiding China’s military and intelligence operations and has had access to “large volumes” of Nvidia’s (NVDA.O), opens new tab chips.
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DeepSeek shook the technology world in January with claims that it had developed an AI model that rivaled those from U.S. firms such as ChatGPT creator OpenAI at much lower cost. Since then, some U.S. companies and government agencies have banned the use of DeepSeek over data security concerns, and President Donald Trump’s administration has mulled banning its use on U.S. government devices.
The bill introduced Wednesday into the U.S. House of Representatives by Representative John Moolenaar, a Michigan Republican who chairs the Select Committee on the Chinese Communist Party, and Representative Raja Krishnamoorthi, an Illinois Democrat who is the ranking member on the committee, would create a permanent framework for barring the use of all Chinese AI models from U.S. executive agencies, as well as those from Russia, Iran and North Korea.
