SECTION 1. SHORT TITLE

This Act may be cited as the ‘‘Decoupling America’s Artificial Intelligence Capabilities from China Act of 2025’’.

SEC. 3. PROHIBITIONS ON IMPORT AND EXPORT OF ARTIFICIAL INTELLIGENCE OR GENERATIVE ARTIFICIAL INTELLIGENCE TECHNOLOGY OR INTELLECTUAL PROPERTY

(a) PROHIBITION ON IMPORTATION.—On and after the date that is 180 days after the date of the enactment of this Act, the importation into the United States of artificial intelligence or generative artificial intelligence technology or intellectual property developed or produced in the People’s Republic of China is prohibited.

Currently, China has the best open source models in text, video and music generation.

    • Petter1@lemm.eeEnglish
      2·
      4 hours ago

      People there have chosen that by voting republican. I mean, he told what he planned to do and got voted for anyway…

      Freedom, but only for rich, white douchebags

    • DFX4509B@lemmy.orgEnglish
      8·
      11 hours ago

      That’s why I consider that tagline, ‘The Land of the Free,’ to be the failed punchline of a bad joke now. It hasn’t meant anything since before Reagan took office at least.

  • A_A@lemmy.worldEnglish
    20·
    14 hours ago

    China : Discovers Anti-gravity
    USA : Law preventing study of anti-gravity

  • BetaDoggo_@lemmy.worldEnglish
    7·
    12 hours ago

    This would also effectively ban the use of any research produced by a Chinese national. Any papers which cite the work of Chinese labs (most of them) would be illegal, as this could be interpreted as aiding Chinese AI research.

  • DFX4509B@lemmy.orgEnglish
    13·
    11 hours ago

    Good luck trying to ban OSS next, which would criminalize basically everyone who’s ever used a browser that isn’t IE, everyone who’s ever used an Android phone or a Chromebook, everyone who’s ever used any modern audio or video codec as the bulk of those are OSS too, and would destroy both Big Data and the Cloud, both of which are primarily Linux-based, and send the US back to the web’s dark ages, as in going back to when BBSes were popular.

    Also, since this bill punishes people by making them spend most of their lives in prison, how are they going to lock up everyone who’s ever used Chromium or Firefox browsers, for example, or everyone who’s ever used Android or ChromeOS, which is most of the country’s population at this point, should that ban extend to a general OSS ban? (this part was originally a reply but I moved it to the main post)

    • WolfLink@sh.itjust.worksEnglish
      3·
      11 hours ago

      Criminalizing something broadly isn’t usually done with the intention of going after everyone who does it, it’s so when they do single out someone they can charge them even if they haven’t actually caught them doing anything wrong (besides the thing everybody does).

      See also: the way laws about taxes and drugs are often enforced.

  • HollowNaught@lemmy.worldEnglish
    12·
    17 hours ago

    ngl them not wanting me to download it makes me want to download it more than anything else, and I’m usually against ai

    • DFX4509B@lemmy.orgEnglish
      5·
      14 hours ago

      Free speech and expression is one of the many previously-thought-to-be-inalienable rights that are in the current administration’s crosshairs. If I could flee this country for, say, the Netherlands, I’d do so in a heartbeat, unfortunately I can’t.

    • Tudsamfa@lemmy.worldEnglish
      12·
      20 hours ago

      The right to free speak can be compromised if it interferes with other, more important rights…

      … like the right of shareholders to make money.

  • Phoenixz@lemmy.caEnglish
    11·
    20 hours ago

    Awesome, so on top of all the other crap, like a economy that is going off a cliff, the US wants to actually get further behind on AI, just so that assman van make a few extra dollars