Seoul, Feb. 6 -- The finance ministry plans to block access to the Chinese artificial intelligence (AI) service DeepSeek, a ministry official said on Thursday, in the latest of Seoul's restrictions on the use of the service among officials amid data collection concerns. "Due to multiple technical concerns raised about DeepSeek from home and abroad, we plan to block access for the service on PCs connected to external networks," the official said. The decision is part of a government-wide initiative to limit access to DeepSeek to prevent potential leaks of critical information through generative AI services, reports Yonhap news agency.

On Wednesday, access to the service was restricted on computers at the foreign, trade and defence ministr...