What Exactly Makes New AI Chatbot DeepSeek More ‘Dangerous’ Than Others?
By Movieguide® Contributor
DeepSeek, a new Chinese artificial intelligence app, launched at the end of January, and experts warn that this chatbot is more dangerous than others, especially when it comes to privacy.
“Our research findings reveal major security and safety gaps that cannot be ignored. Robust safeguards — including guardrails and continuous monitoring — are essential to prevent harmful misuse,” said Sahil Agarwal, Enkrypt AI CEO.
Over 12 million people worldwide have already used the app, but according to Tech Rader Pro, Enkrypt AI says that security vulnerabilities, including malware, data breaches, injection attacks and ethical risks, could put users privacy in danger.
“As the AI arms race between the US and China intensifies, both nations are pushing the boundaries of next-generation AI for military, economic, and technological supremacy,” Agarwal said.
“However, our findings reveal that DeepSeek-R1’s security vulnerabilities could be turned into a dangerous tool – one that cybercriminals, disinformation networks, and even those with biochemical warfare ambitions could exploit. These risks demand immediate attention,” he warned.
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US Reps. Darin LaHood, R-Ill., and Josh Gottheimer, D-N.J are already working on legislation to ban DeepSeek from government devices, citing national security concerns.
“The technology race with the Chinese Communist Party (CCP) is not one the United States can afford to lose,” LaHood said. “The national security threat that DeepSeek — a CCP-affiliated company — poses to the United States is alarming.”
“Under no circumstances can we allow a CCP company to obtain sensitive government or personal data,” Gottheimer added.
Feroot Security CEO Ivan Tsarynny explained that the chatbot has a hidden code that could “send user login information to China Mobile, a state-owned telecommunications company that has been banned from operating in the U.S.,” NBC said.
“It’s mindboggling that we are unknowingly allowing China to survey Americans and we’re doing nothing about it,” Tsarynny told AP News. “It’s hard to believe that something like this was accidental. There are so many unusual things to this. You know that saying ‘Where there’s smoke, there’s fire’? In this instance, there’s a lot of smoke.”
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