U.S. Representative Ro Khanna asks DeepSeek, Alibaba, and Moonshot AI about superintelligence and RSI safeguards

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Ro Khanna, the lead Democrat on the U.S. House Select Committee on China, wrote to DeepSeek, Alibaba, and Moonshot AI seeking records about their pursuit of “superintelligence” and recursive self-improvement (RSI), and asking whether they have safeguards and “kill switches” or accept audits by non-governmental organizations. He also wrote to the Office of the Director of National Intelligence, seeking an assessment of the U.S. ability to respond to out-of-control AI labs and of China’s approach to catastrophic AI risk. The goal is to advance a U.S.-China treaty banning RSI.

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