Exclusive: Republican urges Trump administration to ban Chinese AI for contractors

Exclusive: Republican urges Trump administration to ban Chinese AI for contractors

The US government should ban government agencies and contractors from using Chinese AI models, Sen. Tom Cotton, R-Ark., argued in a letter to Commerce Secretary Howard Lutnick sent this week. “Backdoors may be embedded into open weight Chinese models, and auditing produces limited assurances. American companies, particularly those that do business with the US government, should never jeopardize our security for higher profits,” Cotton wrote in t…