US AI labs are emerging target for foreign spies, experts warn Congress
Former U.S. officials testified before the House Intelligence Committee that American intelligence agencies are falling behind in protecting AI labs from foreign espionage, particularly efforts by China to acquire advanced AI technology.
Why this matters: The target here is not a government server. It is private AI labs full of research, model weights, and training data that took billions of dollars and years to build. China does not need to build everything from scratch if it can take it. The warning is about a gap between how fast AI is advancing and how slowly U.S. counterintelligence has caught up. If that gap is real, the people most exposed are the researchers and companies doing the work, not the officials sitting in the hearing room.
Who should care: General readers · AI governance · Policy
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