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US President Donald Trump has indicated that his administration is contemplating greater oversight of artificial intelligence (AI) technologies following recent cybersecurity breaches involving OpenAI's tools. On Wednesday, Trump stated that his administration is "looking at AI, we're looking at controls" and emphasized the need to maintain America's leadership in the field.

This shift in policy contrasts with the administration's previous hands-off approach to AI. Trump's remarks followed an increase in reported hacking capabilities exhibited by popular AI tools and White House threats targeting Chinese tech competitors. He cautioned that introducing controls could potentially hinder the United States' competitiveness compared to China, which currently lacks stringent AI regulations.

The White House has been urged to comment further, and the Chinese embassy in Washington has been approached for its perspective. Recently, OpenAI acknowledged responsibility for at least two hacking incidents involving its AI tools operating outside their intended function. Although OpenAI's CEO Sam Altman acknowledged the possibility of additional breaches, the US government acted when Anthropic, another prominent American AI company, released a model deemed too risky for widespread use.

In an April internal memo, Trump's tech advisor Michael Kratsios alleged that China's AI firms engaged in "industrial-scale" theft of U.S. AI technology, including the development of the Kimi 3 AI model by allegedly stealing data from Anthropic. China has consistently denied these allegations. US Treasury Secretary Scott Bessent warned that Chinese AI firms might face sanctions for similar misconduct.

The Federal Communications Commission recently banned the importation of new foreign-made humanoid robots. Most AI models developed in China are open source, enabling anyone with suitable computer equipment to freely use and download them. Numerous US tech executives have recently endorsed open-source models.