US representative Khanna asks Chinese AI companies about AI safety
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On 29 September 2026, Ro Khanna, the top Democrat on the US House select committee on China, wrote to three Chinese AI companies, DeepSeek, Alibaba and Moonshot AI, requesting documents on their pursuit of superintelligence and recursive self-improvement (RSI). He asked whether they had safeguards and kill switches. He also wrote to the Office of the Director of National Intelligence, requesting an assessment of the US ability to respond to AI labs losing control and of how the Chinese government evaluates catastrophic AI risks. The report says his aim is to promote a US–China treaty banning RSI. There have been no responses from the three companies or further developments.
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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.
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