Senator Hawley Proposes Jail Time for People Who Download DeepSeek.

The USA appears to be feeling a certain fear towards China; the Eastern power has always been an American enemy, yet it would seem that the state's sinophobia is reaching unprecedented levels outside of wartime. Recently, legislation titled ‘Decoupling America's Artificial Intelligence Capabilities from China Act’ was proposed to make it illegal to import or export artificial intelligence products to and from China.

Josh Hawley, the Republican senator behind this proposal, specified that anyone who knowingly downloads Deepseek, or any Chinese AI model, would face up to 20 years in prison, a million-dollar fine, or both - if the bill is passed.

Behind this interminable terror lies a desire to safeguard ‘American economic superiority, cutting off China from American ingenuity and stopping the Chinese Communist Party's subsidy of innovation’ - according to Hawley.