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‘The advance of humanity is not a zero-sum game’, Jensen Huang, Chief Executive Officer (CEO) of Nvidia, told the British Broadcasting Corporation (BBC) in an interview last year when asked about the Artificial Intelligence (AI) race between Beijing and Washington, in which his company’s products fuel the contestants.
Last Sunday, Huang admitted to having an affair with someone from the rival superpower in the global AI race, who is also alleged to be spying on behalf of her homeland. There is no speculation at present that he was aware of Alice Huang’s alleged assistance of Beijing, and he has accepted an independent investigation by Nvidia.
However, Washington and Beijing do indeed appear to treat it as a zero-sum game, as seen by the former’s decision to ban exports of Nvidia’s most advanced products to the People’s Republic of China (PRC), and Beijing’s retaliatory controls.
Do such export controls curb ‘the advance of humanity’, or are they essential to national security?
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