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Should The U.S. Risk Its AI Edge By Letting Nvidia Sell Chips To China?
Anthropic CEO Dario Amodei warns that Nvidia's AI chip sales could accelerate Chinese military AI, urging stricter U.S. export controls amid congressional oversight proposals.
- Recently at Davos, Anthropic CEO Dario Amodei warned that allowing $1.5 trillion chipmaker Nvidia to sell AI chips to China poses serious national security risks, sparking audible shock during his Bloomberg interview.
- The U.S. Commerce Department said Nvidia and AMD can resume sales of AI chips to pre-approved customers in China under strict controls, and last week President Donald Trump confirmed a 25% U.S. revenue cut.
- Nvidia's H200-class chips underpin AI models described as cognition, which Amodei compared to 100 million people, warning they could accelerate Chinese military and security capabilities.
- This week, the House Foreign Affairs Committee advanced the AI Overwatch Act introduced last month by Rep. Brian Mast, requiring license approvals within 30 days and reporting Chinese customs blocked H200 imports last week.
- Nvidia's chips are seen as indispensable, with AMD and Intel trying to catch up, while supporters say keeping U.S.-designed chips central benefits AI infrastructure amid lawmakers’ security warnings.
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In an analogue that hopes to be clear enough, Anthropic's executive director said that selling NVIDIA chips in China is like “selling nuclear weapons in North Korea”. The conversation took place during the...
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Anthropic: China chip sales like ‘selling nuclear weapons to N.Korea’
Anthropic CEO Dario Amodei equated Washington’s decision to allow Nvidia to manufacture AI chips for China with “selling nuclear weapons to North Korea.” Speaking at the World Economic Forum, the head of the AI giant told Bloomberg that the US is “many years ahead of China” in chipmaking ability, but that the move by Nvidia — a major Anthropic investor — and the Trump administration was “crazy,” and had “incredible national security implications…
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