- Openai has suggested to ban deepseek in critical areas
- Calls Deepseek “State Subsidized” and “State -Controlled”
- Openai would like to see the removal of “overly burdensome state law”
Openai has sent a proposal to the Office of Science and Technology Policy, which calls on the US government to ban the use of Deepseek in governments, military and intelligence services. By mentioning the Chinese AI by name, the proposal calls Deepseek “State Subsidized” and “State Controlled”.
The letter available on its site and signed by Chris Lehane, Vice President of, Global Affairs in Openai, also suggests “banning the use of PRC-produced equipment (eg Huawei Ascend Chips) and models that violate users’ privacy and create security risks as the risk of IP theft” among what it called Tier 1 countries.
The letter says that “As America’s world-leading AI sector is approaching artificial general intelligence (AGI), with a Chinese Communist Party (CCP) intended to overtake us by 2030, the Trump Administration’s new AI action plan can ensure that US-led AI, built on democratic principles, continues to win over CCP-built autocratically, Authoritar Ai.
Identity crisis
Deepseek recently caused a shock wave in the AI industry by giving similar results such as Chatgpt O1-Reasoning Model with its Deepseek-R1 model, but at a much lower price for developers and free to use web browser. Share prices for companies that were heavily invested in AI, then an immediate decline, although the market has since returned to previous levels.
Many have questioned whether Deeekks rapid progress was really down to an innovative new training methodology, or whether it had “distilled” some training data from Openai against its terms and conditions. As we noticed on Techradar, Deepseek would sometimes celebrate himself for Chatgpt when asked who it was.
The race about Agi
The letter from Openai says:
“As with Huawei, there is a significant risk of building on top of Deepseek models in critical infrastructure and other high-risk cases given the potential that Deepseek could be forced by CCP to manipulate its models to cause harm.”
There is no direct proof of suggesting that Deepseek owned and controlled by the Chinese Hedge Fund with high flights is controlled by the Chinese government, but it has been noted that you cannot get Deepseek-R1-Chatboten to answer questions about political issues that are sensitive to KRC such as the Tiananmen Square Protestes and Massacre.
Openai clearly sees humanity as on the door of artificial general intelligence (AGI) that describe systems that possess human -like general intelligence. Agi is something that Openai has been working on since its creation as a company, and the proposal also attacks the “overly burdensome state law” that holds it back.
“As our CEO Sam Altman has written, we are at the door of the next leap in prosperity: the intelligence age. But we must ensure that people have freedom of intelligence, which we believe the freedom to gain access to and take advantage of AGI, protected from both autocratic forces that would remove people’s freedoms, and layers of laws and bureaucracy that would prevent us from realizing them. “
