Australia Bans Chinese AI App DeepSeek for Government Use

Canberra, VIVA – The Chinese government has slammed Australia for banning the Chinese artificial intelligence chatbot app DeepSeek on government devices.

The federal government opted to ban the app after it was found to pose national security risks. 

In a statement released on Wednesday night by the Chinese foreign ministry, the move was described as the "politicisation of economic, trade and technological issues", which Beijing said it opposes.

China also strongly denied that the app was being used to collect data. 

"The Chinese government … has never and will never require enterprises or individuals to illegally collect or store data," the statement said, as quoted from Australian broadcasting site.

Under the Australian ban revealed on Tuesday, all government bodies, except corporate organisations like Australia Post and the ABC, will be forced to remove all DeepSeek products from their devices effective immediately.

They will also have to block access to DeepSeek products and report back to the government when they have completed it, although employees will be able to use the program on their personal devices.

According to the government, the decision follows advice from national security and intelligence agencies that determined the platform posed "an unacceptable risk to Australian government technology".

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22 Mei 2025