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S8 Ep156: PREVIEW — Jack Burnham — The Hidden Dangers of Chinese AI Deep Seek. John Batchelor speaks with Jack Burnham, a senior research analyst at the Foundation for Defense of Democracy, regarding the Chinese artificial intelligence model Deep Seek. Burnham warn

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🗓️ 2 December 2025

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PREVIEWJack Burnham — The Hidden Dangers of Chinese AI Deep Seek. John Batchelor speaks with Jack Burnham, a senior research analyst at the Foundation for Defense of Democracy, regarding the Chinese artificial intelligence model Deep Seek. Burnham warns that despite public claims regarding the software's cost efficiency and technical effectiveness, Deep Seek functions strategically as a "back door" providing Chinese leadership direct access to American users' data, devices, and computational infrastructure, posing profound national security risks including potential espionage, intellectual property theft, and surveillance capabilities that exceed publicly disclosed functionalities.
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0:00.0

This is John Batchel, speaking with colleague Jack Burnham of the Foundation for Defense of Democracy.

0:05.7

He's a senior research analyst at the China Project, discovering Deep Seek, again, the claims by the Chinese leadership about Deep Seek being cheaper and just as good and wide open.

0:19.8

Well, what can go wrong with Deep Seek is profound.

0:24.2

You wondered why it was so readily available around the world,

0:28.9

why it's become so popular.

0:30.9

Jack's going to tell you the word backdoor.

0:35.0

This is Jack Burnham, FTT, describing what is recently

0:39.0

discovered about DeepSeek, the

0:41.7

AI, the large language model AI

0:45.1

that only wants to help you.

0:48.6

Much more of this later.

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