The United States House Committee on China’s Communist Party released a report on Wednesday (16th) accusing DeepSeek of posing a serious threat to American national security. The report alleges that the Chinese artificial intelligence startup company collects user data for the Chinese Communist government and secretly manipulates outcomes, becoming the latest tool used by the CCP to beautify itself, monitor foreign citizens, and steal and disrupt U.S. export control restrictions.
In recent months, due to national security concerns, international calls to ban DeepSeek have been escalating.
Based in Hangzhou, China, the startup company DeepSeek unveiled its open-source reasoning model R1 in January. It was reported that this model outperformed OpenAI in multiple tests, with DeepSeek even briefly becoming the number one free app download in the Apple App Store in the U.S.
Senior U.S. artificial intelligence executives told the House committee, “Some industry insiders claim that the United States is 18 months ahead in the field of artificial intelligence, but this obscures the fact that it is actually closer to 3 months.”
The House Committee on China’s Communist Party emphatically emphasizes in the report that DeepSeek poses a serious threat to U.S. national security.
The report points out that while it may appear to be just another artificial intelligence chatbot that provides a way for users to generate text and answer questions, upon closer examination, DeepSeek secretly sends acquired personal data to China Mobile, which has ties to the CCP military, posing a security vulnerability to users. The U.S. has already banned China Mobile from operating in the U.S.
According to the report, in compliance with Chinese laws, DeepSeek secretly manipulates its presented results to align with the CCP’s propaganda; DeepSeek likely uses illegal model distillation techniques to create its models, stealing America’s leading AI models.
The committee investigation also found that DeepSeek’s artificial intelligence models appear to be powered by advanced chips provided by the U.S. semiconductor giant Nvidia, reportedly using tens of thousands of chips that are currently restricted from export to China.
The committee recommends taking swift action to expand export controls, strengthen export control enforcement, and address the risks posed by Chinese artificial intelligence models.
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