Seek U.S.-China protections against compromise of American intellectual property through AI model distillation.

Protect American intellectual property. Direct the Commerce Department to pursue negotiations with China on protections against the compromise of U.S. intellectual property through model distillation.

The framework would direct the Commerce Department to negotiate with China on protections for U.S. intellectual property against model distillation.

New Bipartisan AI Safety Bill Will Move U.S. and China Beyond the “Red Phone” | Congressman Sam Liccardo
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Today, Congressmen Sam Liccardo (D-CA) and Kevin Kiley (I-CA) will introduce legislation to establish U.S.-China coordination on frontier artificial intelligence safety.

Fetched verbatim passage. AI summary (separate from source): Liccardo announced a bipartisan bill to establish U.S.-China frontier AI safety coordination, showing concrete effort during the lookback window but not enactment.

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New Bipartisan AI Safety Bill Will Move U.S. and China Beyond the “Red Phone” | Congressman Sam Liccardo
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Direct the Commerce Department to pursue negotiations with China on protections against the compromise of U.S. intellectual property through model distillation.

Fetched verbatim passage. AI summary (separate from source): The official release directly matches the commitment’s substance: Commerce negotiations with China on protections against U.S. IP compromise through model distillation.

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New Bipartisan AI Safety Bill Will Move U.S. and China Beyond the “Red Phone” | Congressman Sam Liccardo
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this Act directs that the Secretary of Commerce, in consultation with other agencies, shall seek to commence negotiations with the government of China regarding measures to ensure protection of U.S. intellectual property compromised by model distillation.

Fetched verbatim passage. AI summary (separate from source): The framework text documents the proposed legislative mechanism: Commerce-led negotiations with China to protect U.S. IP compromised by model distillation.

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international-ai-cooperation-one-pager-v3-watermarked.pdf
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U.S. persons may not provide any information during such communications that (a) facilitates the distillation of U.S. large language models; (b) enables the release of intellectual property possessed by a U.S. person or entity

Fetched verbatim passage. AI summary (separate from source): The proposal includes guardrails on expert engagement, barring sharing information that would aid distillation or release U.S.-held IP.

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international-ai-cooperation-one-pager-v3-watermarked.pdf
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China-based artificial intelligence (AI) companies are engaging in aggressive, industrial-scale distillation activities that systematically extract restricted proprietary functionalities and capabilities of U.S. frontier AI models with the purpose of training their own

Fetched verbatim passage. AI summary (separate from source): NSA, FBI, and CISA identified the underlying model-distillation threat during the lookback window and issued mitigation guidance, but this is unilateral agency action rather than completed U.S.-China protections.

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NSA and Others Warn China-Based AI Companies are Distilling U.S. Frontier AI Models > National Security Agency/Central Security Service > Press Release View
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The letter points to recent disclosures involving rogue AI agents, biological misuse, cyberattacks, foreign surveillance and efforts by Chinese companies to replicate leading American AI systems.

Unverified model/legacy excerpt; not proof. AI summary (separate from source): Liccardo separately pressed House leadership to reconvene for AI safeguards, citing Chinese replication of leading American AI systems as part of the risk landscape.

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LAWMAKERS URGE SPEAKER JOHNSON TO RECONVENE HOUSE, ADVANCE BIPARTISAN AI SAFEGUARDS | Congressman Sam Liccardo
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