Will Chinese AI companies slow down? A top House Democrat wants answers

Ro Khanna, the ranking Democrat on the US House select committee on China, wrote to DeepSeek, Alibaba and Moonshot AI seeking documents on their pursuit of 'superintelligence' and recursive self-improvement (RSI), and asking whether they had safeguards and 'kill switches'. He also asked the Office of the Director of National Intelligence to assess US capacity to handle AI labs losing control and China's methods for evaluating catastrophic AI risks, aiming to promote a US–China treaty banning RSI.