Sen. Tom Cotton, R-Ark., has asked the Trump administration to “immediately prohibit” federal departments and agencies from using DeepSeek, the new artificial intelligence chatbot produced by China, warning that it would “almost certainly” provide the Chinese Communist Party with U.S. data and intel.

In a letter to Office of Management and Budget Director Russell Vought on Thursday, Cotton wrote that the country’s policies are at stake.

“Federal employees are tasked with researching, developing, and implementing policies critical to America’s economic and national security. Allowing those employees to use of PRC [People’s Republic of China] origin artificial intelligence (AI) or machine learning tools on government devices will almost certainly provide the Chinese Communist Party (CCP) with U.S. government data as well as advance information on our nation’s policies,” he wrote.

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