Australia has turned down DeepSeek for all government equipment as Chinese artificial intelligence startups pose security risks, the government said on Tuesday.
The Home Office Secretary provides mandatory guidance to all government entities to “prevent or install DeepSeek products, applications and web services and to discover all existing instances of DeepSeek products, applications and web services for all existing Australian government DeepSeek products, applications and web services. the place. Systems and equipment,” the statement said.
Home Minister Tony Burke said DeepSeek poses an “unacceptable risk” to government technology and the immediate ban is “protecting Australia’s national security and national interests”, Australian media reported Tuesday evening.
The ban will not be extended to private citizens’ equipment.
Global technology stocks fell after the launch of DeepSeek last month — apparently spending a small percentage of competitors’ AI models and requiring less complex chips — posed questions about the huge Western investment in chip manufacturers and data centers.
Australia’s decision to ban DeepSeek has taken similar action in Italy, while other countries in Europe and elsewhere are also studying AI companies.
Taiwan banned government departments from using DeepSeek earlier this week.
Prime Minister Anthony Albanese’s government has forcibly banned the Chinese social media app Tiktok from the government’s ban on security concerns two years ago.
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