Washington – He United States Congress has prohibited its employees with the use of Deepseek, the Chinese system of Artificial Intelligence (AI), Axios reported this Friday.
According to the American media, Congress has had difficulty overcome the administrative and security challenges posed by the rapid advance of AI technology.
“At this time, Depseek is being reviewed by the CAO (Congress Administrative Office) and is currently not authorized for official use in the Chamber,” said the administrative director of the House of Representatives in a warning to his employees to which It has had axious access.
In that notice it was noted that there is proof of the existence of “actors” that “are already using Deepseek to distribute malicious software and infect devices.”
“To mitigate these risks, the Chamber has taken security measures to restrict Deepseek’s functionality in all devices issued” by the institution, adds the note, which stresses that “employees are prohibited from installing Deepseek on any phone, computer or Official tablet ”.
This is not the first time that the administrative authorities of the Congress have restricted the use of a product of AI to its employees.
In 2023, Congress established limits to the use of Chatgpt, indicating to its departments that they could only use the premium version of this Chatbot created by the American OpenAI for certain tasks, recalls axios.
Deepseek has caused an important stir in the AI world sector after the launch of its V3 model, whose development is claimed that it only lasted two months and cost less than 6 million dollars.
On January 20 he published his latest version, called R1.