"Serious concerns have been raised concerning DeepSeek AI’s connection to foreign government surveillance and censorship, including how DeepSeek can be used to harvest user data

A bipartisan bill to ban DeepSeek AI from governmental devices has been introduced, as other lawmakers call the AI "TikTok on steroids."

House lawmakers are seeking to bar federal employees from downloading Chinese startup DeepSeek's artificial intelligence chatbot app onto their government-issued devices over national security concerns.