US House to Weigh Penalties on AI Model Copying by Chinese Firms

House Republicans are calling for US sanctions against Chinese entities that improperly extract results from leading US artificial intelligence models to develop their own competing systems, part of a widening effort by Congress to counter China in the global AI race.

Legislation proposed by Representative Bill Huizenga would direct the government to identify entities in China and Russia that use improper query-and-copy techniques on American models, according to a draft seen by by Bloomberg News. It would prompt consideration of sanctions on offenders via the Commerce Department’s blacklist and through presidential emergency economic powers established under a 1977 law.

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