"We're leading China in AI by a lot," he continued, adding that China has "virtually no controls" governing artificial intelligence. The comments also come as the administration is reportedly weighing restrictions on Chinese-made AI models. WHITE HOUSE MONITORING INCIDENT AFTER OPENAI MODELS ESCAPED CONTAINMENT AND HACKED HUGGING FACE SYSTEMSThe administration had already introduced AI-security measures before the incident. Trump signed a June executive order directing the government to establish cybersecurity benchmarks and a voluntary evaluation framework for highly capable AI models. OpenAI said it deactivated and encrypted the internal research prototype involved in the incident and restricted research access to it.