The administration of US President Donald Trump on Wednesday said it would maintain efforts to keep advanced artificial intelligence (AI) technology out of China’s hands, brushing off calls from Nvidia Corp chief executive officer Jensen Huang (黃仁勳) to ease restrictions on chip exports to the world’s second-largest economy.
“We obviously have huge respect for Jensen,” Sriram Krishnan, White House senior policy adviser for AI, said in a Bloomberg Television interview.
“When it comes to inside China, I do think there is still bipartisan and broad concern about what can happen to these GPUs once they’re physically inside” the country, Krishnan said.
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While the Trump administration still sees a security risk from widening AI chip exports to China, Krishnan said it agrees with Huang’s view that restrictions on a wide range of other US trading partners need to be revisited.
The Trump administration is rescinding and moving to replace an AI diffusion rule implemented by the administration of former US president Joe Biden that Krishnan said created “GPU haves and GPU have nots.”
“When it comes to the rest of the world, we want American AI stack starting from the GPUs to the models to everything on top,” Krishnan said.
“On that, Jensen and I and us are in agreement,” he added.
Krishnan spoke hours after Huang made his most forceful public comments to date against escalating US export restrictions aimed at China.
Speaking at the Computex industry conference in Taipei, Huang blasted the measures as a “failure” and urged the US to lower barriers to chip sales in China before US firms cede the market to rivals such as Huawei Technologies Co (華為).
Huang told reporters that China would account for a US$50 billion opportunity next year.
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