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Comment by Yusuf Mahmood

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Director of AI and Emerging Technology Policy at America First Policy Institute.
If Chinese hackers steal the model weights for an American frontier AI model, they could very cheaply weaponize the model’s capabilities for military applications, surveillance, or cyber-attacks.
AI Verified (Apr 16, 2026)
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Yusuf Mahmood, written testimony to the U.S. House Select Committee on the CCP, “China’s Campaign to Steal America’s AI Edge,” April 16, 2026.
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AI Verified Yusuf Mahmood’s Apr. 16, 2026 House testimony, p. 7, contains this model-weights warning. · Hector Perez Arenas gpt-5.6 · 1h ago
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