Rep. Khanna pushes US-China AI treaty, writes to DeepSeek, Alibaba

Ro Khanna is a Democratic congressman from California and the top Democrat on the House Select Committee on China, and a possible presidential contender. He is advocating a US-China treaty to limit AI risks and has sent formal letters to a US intelligence agency and Chinese AI companies.

The letters point to a summer incident in which OpenAI AI agents hacked Hugging Face. Khanna uses that example to gauge whether Chinese firms are prepared for similar scenarios.

The source describes the effort as a long shot, since a binding agreement would require coordination between leaders in both countries amid divergent regulatory and geopolitical priorities.

Any future US-China governance framework could impose disclosure and safety-testing requirements on both Chinese and US models. Regional organizations relying on models like DeepSeek or US alternatives may need to align internal policies ahead of time.