Washington- A bipartisan group of legislators promised on Wednesday to maintain the systems of artificial intelligence (AI) Chinese outside the federal agencies, while committed to guaranteeing that USA prevail against China In the global IA competition.
“We are in a new cold war, and artificial intelligence is central strategic technology,” said representative John Molenaar, republican president of the Select Committee of the House of Representatives on China, when inaugurating an audience on the matter. “The future balance of power may well be determined by whom it leads in artificial intelligence.”
The audience in the Capitol There is about five months after an emerging Chinese technology company called Depseek presented an AI model that rivaled the platforms of OpenAI and Google in performance, but that cost only a fraction of its construction. This generated concerns that China was up to date with the United States despite the restrictions on chips and other key technologies used to develop AI.
The increasingly fierce race is now a central part of the rivalry between the United States and China. And there are so much at stake that the United States must win, witnesses said to the Congress panel.
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The two countries are “in a long-term techno-seduction competition that will determine the form of the global political order for the coming years”Said Thomas Mahnken, president and executive director of the Center for Strategic and Budgetary Evaluations.
Jack Clark, co -founder and Chief of Policy of Anthropic, told the committee that the AI has incorporated values.
“I know that artificial intelligence systems are a reflection of the societies in which they are built. Artificial intelligence built in democracies will lead to a better technology for all humanity. The technology of this type built in authoritarian nations will be … inseparably intertwined and imbued with authoritarianism,” said Clark. “We must take decisive measures to ensure that the United States prevails.”
Earlier this year, Chris Lehane, Chief of Openai Global Affairs, told reporters in Paris that the United States and China were the only two countries in the world that could build the scale. The competition, which described as one between democratic and autocratic AI, is “very real and very serious”, and what is at stake is “huge,” he said, because “the global rails of artificial intelligence will be built by one of those two countries.”
The 2025 AI index report of the Artificial Intelligence Center centered on the Human University of Stanford has the United States in the lead in the production of the main AI models. But the report indicates that China is quickly closing the performance gap, reaching almost parity in 2024 at various important reference points. It also shows that China leads artificial intelligence publications and patents.
At the audience, Clark urged legislators to maintain and strengthen the export controls of advanced chips to China. “This competition is based primarily on computing,” he said. The United States must control the flow of powerful chips to China, said Clark, “or else they are giving them the tools they will need to build a powerful AI to damage US interests.”
Mark Beall, Jr., President of Government Affairs of The AI Policy Network, said there are “a series of very evident gaps” in the export controls of the United States that have allowed China to obtain controlled chips. Legislators presented at the beginning of this year a bill to trace these chips to ensure that they do not deviate to the wrong hands.
In another legislative step, republican and democratic legislators both in the House of Representatives as in him Senate They presented on Wednesday a bill to ban Chinese systems in the federal government.
“The United States must draw a hard line: hostile artificial intelligence systems do not have to operate within our government,” said Moolenaar.
The non -adversarial AI law, as proposed, seeks to identify artificial intelligence systems developed by foreign adversaries and prohibit their use in the United States government, with exceptions for use in research and counterterrorism.