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Dean Ball predicts the Trump administration will create regulatory risk around open-weight Chinese AI models to effectively ban them.

On The AI Breakdown · unverified speaker · The AI Breakdown · Jul 21, 2026

I would guess that the Trump administration will at some point realize that their best strategy here would be to create large amounts of regulatory risk around the use of open weight Chinese models.

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The Trump administration issues regulatory guidance, executive orders, or agency directives creating compliance risk for companies using Chinese open-weight AI models.

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