Grassley, Banks Press American AI Companies on Chinese Espionage Safeguards

BUTLER COUNTY, IOWA - U.S. Senate Judiciary Committee Chairman Chuck Grassley (R-Iowa) and U.S. Sen. Jim Banks (R-Ind.) wrote to nine artificial intelligence (AI) companies regarding the People's Republic of China's (PRC) targeting of American AI technologies, which are critical to U.S. national security and economic leadership, through state-backed programs, corporate infiltration and coercive tactics.

"The Chinese Communist Party (CCP) has an extensive track record of conducting espionage on U.S. companies in critical sectors… Protecting AI technology from PRC espionage is of paramount importance, especially as these systems become more powerful," the lawmakers wrote.

In their letters to OpenAI, Anthropic, Google LLC, x.AI Corp., Meta Platforms, Inc., Microsoft, Amazon, Safe Superintelligence Inc. and Thinking Machines Lab, Grassley and Banks called on each company to describe their efforts to detect and guard against Chinese espionage, manage insider threats posed by the PRC, secure sensitive AI model information and notify the U.S. government in the event of a security threat.

Read Grassley and Banks' full letters below:

• OpenAI
• Anthropic
• Google LLC
• x.AI Corp.
• Meta Platforms, Inc.
• Microsoft
• Amazon
• Safe Superintelligence Inc.
• Thinking Machines Lab

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