White House accuses China of copying American AI models in ‘industrial-scale’ campaign

(CNN) — Foreign entities primarily based in China have conducted “industrial-scale” campaigns to crib frontier AI models from US companies, Michael Kratsios, White House director of the office of science and technology policy, said in a memo on Thursday. The effort entails using tens of thousands of surrogate accounts to go undetected and complex tools to expose proprietary information, Krastios wrote. “These coordinated campaigns systemically extract capabilities from American AI models, exploiting American expertise and innovation,” he said. The US and China have been locked in a race to build the most sophisticated and advanced AI technology. AI has become…