Australia has banned all services of Chinese tech company DeepSee on government systems and devices. The move was criticized by Chinese AI experts, calling it ideologically motivated and saying that some Western countries are unable to make a fair and objective assessment of China’s technological progress. According to Australian media reports, the Australian federal government has banned DeepSeq from computers and mobile devices, calling it an “unacceptable threat to national security”. Let us tell you that earlier Italy has also banned DeepSeek.
Under this new ban, all government agencies, with the exception of corporate entities such as Australia Post and the ABC, have been directed to immediately remove all products linked to DeepSeek from their devices. Australia’s Home Affairs Minister Tony Burke claimed to the Guardian that the decision was taken based on “protecting government systems and assets”, and not that the application was created in China. The ban follows similar steps taken by various US agencies, including NASA and the Pentagon, and by Italy.
Liu Wei, director of the Human-Machine Interaction and Cognitive Engineering Lab at Beijing University of Posts and Telecommunications, said, “Australia’s move clearly reflects discrimination driven by ideology rather than technical concerns. When US federal agencies take steps to regulate Chinese technology, Australia seems bound to follow suit.”
Liu Wei further said that “If Australia was really talking about technological threats to national security, it should also ban the US company OpenAI and other tech companies working with DeepSeq. But there is no indication that the Australian government will take any such action against US AI companies.
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