Forbes May 22, 2025
According to Kurt Rohloff, CTO and co-founder of leading privacy-enhanced secure data collaboration software vendor Duality Technologies, the recent bipartisan move to ban the AI platform DeepSeek from U.S. government devices signals far more than just national security concerns—it’s a red flag for the broader trajectory of generative AI.
“DeepSeek’s potential vulnerabilities are a symptom of a larger, more pressing issue with how society is trying to deploy generative AI,” Rohloff says. “The privacy architecture of most GenAI systems simply isn’t designed for the regulatory realities many sectors face.”
In May 2025, Senators Bill Cassidy and Jacky Rosen introduced legislation to bar DeepSeek from federal contracts, citing concerns over the platform’s acknowledgment of routing user data to China. For Rohloff,...







