Top Republican moves to restrict AI exports amid concerns over Chinese tech

FIRST ON FOX: A apical House Republican is moving to marque it harder for China to procure precocious U.S. exertion amid longstanding concerns astir intelligence spot theft by Beijing.

"My projected authorities volition found safeguards to forestall aboriginal shocks similar China's improvement of DeepSeek utilizing American technology. In summation to the chips China reportedly stockpiled, it appears China utilized chips nether the existent export power threshold to execute this AI breakthrough," House Homeland Security Committee Chairman Mark Green, R-Tenn., told Fox News Digital.

"This script should beryllium a wakeup telephone — if you springiness the CCP an inch, it volition instrumentality a mile. The CCP's craftiness is coupled with a full disregard for ineligible and information considerations. We already cognize that the CCP uses exertion to oppress its ain citizens and to perpetrate acts of espionage and sabotage against the United States, including large cyberattacks."

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U.S. officials are acrophobic astir DeepSeek, a Chinese AI institution with ties to the Chinese Communist Party, led by Chinese President Xi Jinping. (Getty Images | iStock)

DeepSeek is an artificial quality (AI) bundle institution based successful Hangzhou, China. Its AI chatbot is known to beryllium akin to ChatGPT, which was made by California-based OpenAI.

DeepSeek’s merchandise of the caller high-profile AI model that costs little to tally than existing models similar those of Meta and OpenAI sent a chill done U.S. markets.

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House Homeland Security Committee Chairman Mark Green, R-Tenn., unveiled a measure to ace down connected China's quality to get U.S. tech. (AP Photo/J. Scott Applewhite, File)

Its popularity successful U.S. app stores has besides renewed concerns astir Chinese companies collecting American data, arsenic good arsenic the Chinese Communist Party's (CCP) censorship practices.

The astonishment DeepSeek merchandise besides displayed however China's economical competitiveness has acold outpaced the quality of U.S. concern leaders and lawmakers to hold connected what to bash astir it. 

The U.S. Commerce Department is present looking into whether DeepSeek utilized chips that were banned from entering China via sanctions, Reuters reported. 

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Green's measure would enactment export controls connected definite nationalist involvement exertion and intelligence spot to China.

It would besides telephone for sanctions against overseas actors who merchantability oregon acquisition specified items to and from China, arsenic good arsenic Chinese entities who knowingly usage items covered by the export controls.