New York State has banned Chinese-tied artificial intelligence application DeepSeek from government devices over data privacy concerns and censorship, according to The Wall Street Journal on Monday.
The news comes as artificial intelligence is in focus at Paris summit where world leaders, executives and experts will hammer out pledges on guiding the development of the rapidly advancing technology.
Vice President J.D. Vance — making his first trip abroad since taking office — is attending the Paris AI Action Summit starting, while China’s President Xi Jinping will be sending his special envoy, signaling high stakes for the meeting.
Heads of state and top government officials, tech bosses and researchers are gathering in Paris for the two-day summit hosted by French President Emmanuel Macron and Indian Prime Minister Narendra Modi. The event aims to address how to harness artificial intelligence’s potential so that it benefits everyone, while containing the technology’s myriad risks.
South Korea’s spy agency has accused Chinese AI app DeepSeek of “excessively” collecting personal data and using all input data to train itself, and questioned the app’s responses to questions relating to issues of national pride.
The National Intelligence Service (NIS) said it sent an official notice to government agencies last week urging them to take security precautions over the artificial intelligence app.
“Unlike other generative AI services, it has been confirmed that chat records are transferable as it includes a function to collect keyboard input patterns that can identify individuals and communicate with Chinese companies’ servers such as volceapplog.com,” the NIS said in a statement issued on Sunday.
Some government ministries in South Korea have blocked access to the app, citing security concerns, joining Australia and Taiwan in warning about or placing restrictions on DeepSeek.
The NIS said DeepSeek gives advertisers unlimited access to user data and stores South Korean users’ data in Chinese servers. Under Chinese law, the Chinese government would be able to access such information when requested, the agency added.
DeepSeek also provided different answers to potentially sensitive questions in different languages, the NIS noted.
Information from Reuters was used to compile this report.
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