Submitted by Office of U.S. Senator Jim Banks
Banks
On Wednesday, April 29, U.S. Senator Jim Banks (R-Ind.) and Senate Judiciary Chairman Chuck Grassley (R-Iowa) sent a letter to nine individual artificial intelligence companies citing growing concerns that the People’s Republic of China (PRC) is actively targeting America’s AI sector through espionage and other security threats.
The letter highlights mounting evidence that the Chinese Communist Party is leveraging state-backed programs, corporate infiltration, and coercive tactics to access sensitive AI technologies critical to U.S. national security and economic leadership. The letter also asks AI companies to describe how they detect and guard against PRC espionage, how they manage insider threats, whether they are capable of preventing PRC actors from stealing their models, and whether they have policies to notify the U.S. government if they detect security threats.
The nine letters were sent to the following:
- Sam Altman, CEO, OpenAI
- Dario Amodei, CEO, Anthropic
- Sundar Pichai, CEO, Google LLC
- Elon Musk, CEO, x.AI Corp.
- Mark Zuckerberg, CEO, Meta Platforms, Inc.
- Satya Nadella, CEO, Microsoft
- Andy Jassy, CEO, Amazon
- Ilya Sutskever, CEO, Safe Superintelligence Inc.
- Mira Murati, CEO, Thinking Machines Lab
Click here to read the letter sent to the CEOs.
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