{"id":108938,"date":"2025-01-29T09:04:56","date_gmt":"2025-01-29T09:04:56","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/chezaspin.com\/blog\/index.php\/2025\/01\/29\/chinas-deepseek-ai-on-us-national-security-radar\/"},"modified":"2025-01-29T09:04:56","modified_gmt":"2025-01-29T09:04:56","slug":"chinas-deepseek-ai-on-us-national-security-radar","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/chezaspin.com\/blog\/chinas-deepseek-ai-on-us-national-security-radar\/","title":{"rendered":"China\u2019s DeepSeek AI on US national security radar"},"content":{"rendered":"

US officials are considering the national security implications of an apparent artificial intelligence (AI) breakthrough by Chinese firm DeepSeek, according to White House press secretary Karoline Leavitt.<\/strong><\/p>\n

The announcement comes after the US navy reportedly banned its members from using DeepSeek\u2019s apps due to \u201cpotential security and ethical concerns\u201d.<\/p>\n

Meanwhile, the maker of ChatGPT, OpenAI, has promised to work closely with the US government to prevent rivals from taking its technology.<\/p>\n

Earlier this week, DeepSeek\u2019s reportedly cheap yet powerful AI model caused a slump in the stocks of US technology firms as investors questioned the billions of dollars they are spending on new AI infrastructure.<\/p>\n

\u201cI spoke with [the National Security Council] this morning, they are looking into what [the national security implications] may be,\u201d said Ms Leavitt, who also restated US President Donald Trump\u2019s remarks a day earlier that DeepSeek should be a wake-up call for the US tech industry.<\/p>\n

According to CNBC, the US navy has sent an email to its staff warning them not to use the DeepSeek app due to \u201cpotential security and ethical concerns associated with the model\u2019s origin and usage\u201d.<\/p>\n

The Navy did not immediately respond to a request for comment from BBC News.<\/p>\n

Speaking on Fox News, the recently appointed \u201cWhite House AI and crypto czar\u201d, David Sacks, also suggested that DeepSeek may have used the models developed by top US firm OpenAI to get better.<\/p>\n

This process \u2013 which involves one AI model learning from another \u2013 is called knowledge distillation.<\/p>\n

\u201cThere\u2019s substantial evidence that what DeepSeek did here is they distilled the knowledge out of OpenAI\u2019s models,\u201d Mr Sacks said. \u201cI think one of the things you\u2019re going to see over the next few months is our leading AI companies taking steps to try and prevent distillation\u2026 That would definitely slow down some of these copycat models.\u201d<\/p>\n

OpenAI echoed this in a later statement that said Chinese and other companies are \u201cconstantly trying to distill the models of leading US AI companies.\u201d<\/p>\n

\u201cAs the leading builder of AI, we engage in countermeasures to protect our [intellectual property]\u2026 and believe as we go forward that it is critically important that we are working closely with the U.S. government to best protect the most capable models\u201d.<\/p>\n

Meanwhile, DeepSeek says it has been the target of cyber attacks. On Monday it said it would temporarily limit registrations because of \u201clarge-scale malicious attacks\u201d on its software.<\/p>\n

A banner currently showing on the company\u2019s website says registration may be busy as a result of the attacks.<\/p>\n

Yuyuan Tantian, a social media channel under China\u2019s state broadcaster CCTV, claims the firm has faced \u201cseveral\u201d cyber attacks in recent weeks, which have increased in \u201cintensity\u201d.<\/p>\n

DeepSeek shot to fame last week as AI geeks lauded its latest AI model and people began downloading its chatbot on app stores. Its rise caused a slump in US tech stocks, many of which have since recovered some ground.<\/p>\n

But America\u2019s AI industry was shaken by the apparent breakthrough, especially because of the prevailing view that the US was far ahead in the race. A slew of trade restrictions banning China\u2019s access to high-end chips was believed to have cemented this.<\/p>\n

Although China has boosted investment in advanced tech to diversify its economy, DeepSeek is not one of the big Chinese firms that have been developing AI models to rival US-made ChatGPT.<\/p>\n

Experts say the US still has an advantage \u2013 it is home to some of the biggest chip companies \u2013 and that it\u2019s unclear yet exactly how DeepSeek built its model and how far it can go.<\/p>\n

As DeepSeek rattled markets this week, President Trump described it as \u201ca wake-up call\u201d for the US tech industry, while suggesting that it could ultimately prove to be a \u201cpositive\u201d sign.<\/p>\n

\u201cIf you could do it cheaper, if you could do it [for] less [and] get to the same end result. I think that\u2019s a good thing for us,\u201d he told reporters on board Air Force One.<\/p>\n

He also said he was not concerned about the breakthrough, adding the US will remain a dominant player in the field.<\/p>\n

The post China\u2019s DeepSeek AI on US national security radar<\/a> first appeared on KBC<\/a>.<\/p>","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"

US officials are considering the national security implications of an apparent artificial intelligence (AI) breakthrough by Chinese firm DeepSeek, according to White House press secretary Karoline Leavitt. The announcement comes after the US navy reportedly banned its members from using DeepSeek\u2019s apps due to \u201cpotential security and ethical concerns\u201d. Meanwhile, the maker of ChatGPT, OpenAI, […]<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":0,"featured_media":0,"comment_status":"open","ping_status":"closed","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"jetpack_post_was_ever_published":false,"_jetpack_newsletter_access":"","_jetpack_dont_email_post_to_subs":false,"_jetpack_newsletter_tier_id":0,"footnotes":""},"categories":[1],"tags":[],"class_list":["post-108938","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","hentry","category-uncategorized","entry"],"jetpack_sharing_enabled":true,"jetpack_featured_media_url":"","jetpack-related-posts":[],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/chezaspin.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/108938","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/chezaspin.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/chezaspin.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/chezaspin.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=108938"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"https:\/\/chezaspin.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/108938\/revisions"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/chezaspin.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=108938"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/chezaspin.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=108938"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/chezaspin.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=108938"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}