US Faces Extensive AI Intellectual Property Threats

The global competition for AI has escalated into a national security issue, with the United States dominating large model development but facing widespread intellectual-property threats. Threats outlined include state-sponsored cyberattacks, talent recruitment, reverse engineering, joint ventures, data scraping, academic infiltration, infrastructure sabotage, export-control gaps, and model-weight theft that could replicate proprietary systems. These vulnerabilities risk enabling rival nations to shortcut years of research and replicate US models.