cross-posted from: https://lemmy.world/post/25011462

SECTION 1. SHORT TITLE

This Act may be cited as the ‘‘Decoupling America’s Artificial Intelligence Capabilities from China Act of 2025’’.

SEC. 3. PROHIBITIONS ON IMPORT AND EXPORT OF ARTIFICIAL INTELLIGENCE OR GENERATIVE ARTIFICIAL INTELLIGENCE TECHNOLOGY OR INTELLECTUAL PROPERTY

(a) PROHIBITION ON IMPORTATION.—On and after the date that is 180 days after the date of the enactment of this Act, the importation into the United States of artificial intelligence or generative artificial intelligence technology or intellectual property developed or produced in the People’s Republic of China is prohibited.

Currently, China has the best open source models in text, video and music generation.

  • Yozul@beehaw.org
    11·
    7 hours ago

    So, I’m just kind of curious how this would even work. Lots of people in the US already have Deepseek. If they already have it that’s not importing it, is it? What if someone makes a copy of Deepseek from a server that’s in the US? Is that importing it? Are we just trying to block future AIs? How is it even supposed to be beneficial to the US for the people working on AI here to have no access to Chinese models, when China can still freely use ours? Won’t that just give them an advantage in developing AI?

    Honestly, the more I think about this, the dumber it gets, and it was already pretty stupid on a surface level. It’ll probably pass though. I don’t think anybody in Washington DC is even interested in thinking about the consequences of anything they’re doing. It’s all pure pageantry.