Washington Revives Push To Block Chinese Open-Source AI Models
Commerce is weighing an Entity List blacklist while NSA, ONCD and the White House debate a parallel executive order targeting the code.
- Commerce Department is weighing adding Chinese AI developers to its Entity List trade blacklist.
- NSA and the Office of the National Cyber Director debated the open-source risk internally.
- White House aides are drafting a possible executive order targeting foreign open-weight models.
Why it matters: An Entity List cannot delete code already downloaded; it can only stop the next free download.