> Let's see how long it takes before the big US AI companies start lobbying to outright ban use of Chinese AI, even the open source / local models. For "national security" reasons, of course.

Already do on EVs.

..and drones https://www.fcc.gov/document/fcc-updates-covered-list-add-ce...

This is already happening. My company just went through this

? Every company should lock down AI and only whitelist allowed tools.

We are "only" allowed Claude and MS Copilot for security reasons and cost reasons.

Hopefully the US’ self imposed isolation will mean that when they do, they aren’t able to force the rest of the world to follow suit.

They already did - State Dept. launched global campaign against Deepseek.