It seems that Senator Josh Hawley from Missouri has imposed an import ban on China’s artificial intelligence products, which can be seen as a comprehensive attack on scientific dialogue and technological exchange. The new bill, titled the ‘Decoupling America’s Artificial Intelligence Capabilities from China Act’, appears to be a response to the low-cost, high-performance AI model called DeepSeek. However, this bill not only penalizes the downloading behavior of ordinary users but may also affect the sharing of all publicly researched AI models, which raises a question: Are we promoting technological development or stifling it? Is our goal to protect American technological dominance rather than drive technological progress?
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