In the Press: Can disabling DeepSeek block data theft in China?

Hamid R Ekbia, the founding director of the Academic Alliance on AI Policy at Syracuse University responds to the request for a quote by Wei Zhi, reporter of VoaChinese.com.

Can disabling DeepSeek block data theft in China?

Hamid R Ekbia, agrees that such a ban may only be a temporary solution.

"DeepSeek is just one example of the growing challenges facing Silicon Valley in developing artificial intelligence, and it can be said to be an early sign of danger before it happens," Ekbia told VOA. Banning it may provide a temporary solution, but it won't solve the larger problem of the dominance of the data-intensive, energy-intensive, and capital-intensive approaches of big American tech companies. ”

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