“To assist maintain Department of Commerce info techniques protected, entry to the brand new Chinese based mostly AI DeepSeek is broadly prohibited on all GFE,” mentioned one mass e mail to staffers about their government-furnished gear.
“Do not obtain, view, entry any functions, desktop apps or web sites associated to DeepSeek.”
The Commerce division didn’t instantly reply to a request for remark.
Reuters couldn’t instantly decide the extent of the ban all through the US authorities.
DeepSeek’s low-cost AI fashions sparked a serious selloff in international fairness markets in January, as traders anxious in regards to the menace to the United States’ lead in AI.
US officers and members of Congress have expressed issues about the specter of DeepSeek to knowledge privateness and delicate authorities info.
Congressmen Josh Gottheimer and Darin LaHood, members of the House Permanent Select Committee on Intelligence, in February launched laws to ban DeepSeek on authorities gadgets. Earlier this month, they despatched letters to US governors urging them to ban the Chinese AI app on government-issued gear.
“By utilizing DeepSeek, customers are unknowingly sharing extremely delicate, proprietary info with the CCP — akin to contracts, paperwork, and monetary data,” the lawmakers wrote in a March 3 letter, referring to the Chinese Communist Party. “In the unsuitable arms, this knowledge is a gigantic asset to the CCP, a identified international adversary.”
Numerous states have banned the mannequin from authorities gadgets, together with Virginia, Texas and New York, and a coalition of 21 state attorneys common has urged Congress to cross laws.
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