The blocking of China's DeepSeek from accessing U.S. AI technology introduces a very difficult situation on a number of fronts. First, AI development globally is highly interconnected. Many tools, algorithms, and research developments made by American companies have general applications that defy national boundaries. As AI technologies are continuously being developed, stopping a country such as China from accessing them is increasingly difficult with the proliferation of open-source software, shared research, and shared international efforts in the field.
Second, China has developed its own AI, and it is not as dependent on US technologies as before. While some highly advanced AI systems may require American innovation, China is investing heavily in developing its own alternatives. It will speed up blocking access to US technology and accelerate China's drive toward self-reliance, creating new AI tools that could have capabilities beyond anything seen today.
Besides, to implement the ban would mean monitoring complex, decentralized supply chains and enforcement measures that might be hard to handle. Most of the companies involved in the development of AI are cross-border, and their flow of research and tools is hard to trace or restrict.
But, finally, it is not easy to manage for a global technology ecosystem where access to advanced AI tools has to be allowed or denied-a difficult tightrope act between security concerns and innovation.
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