OpenAI calls for US to ban AI models produced by China
( March 13, 2025, 22:34 GMT | Official Statement) -- MLex Summary: OpenAI has submitted its response to the Trump Administration's call for national "AI Action Plan," and is urging the government to consider banning AI models from China, such as DeepSeek, and also to apply the fair-use doctrine to AI. "While America maintains a lead on AI today, DeepSeek shows that our lead is not wide and is narrowing. The AI Action Plan should ensure that American-led AI prevails over CCP-led AI, securing both American leadership on AI and a brighter future for all Americans," OpenAI said. Today, OpenAI shared our recommendations with the White House Office of Science and Technology (OSTP) for the upcoming US AI Action Plan(opens in a new window). As our CEO Sam Altman has written(opens in a new window), we are at the doorstep of the next leap in prosperity: the Intelligence Age. But we must ensure that people have freedom of intelligence, by which we mean the freedom to access and benefit from AI as it advances, protected from both autocratic powers that would take people’s freedoms away, and layers of laws and bureaucracy that would prevent our realizing them....
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