The Trump administration announced Wednesday that it will proceed with efforts to block the export of advanced artificial intelligence (AI) technology to China, dismissing requests from Nvidia CEO Jensen Huang to ease chip export restrictions, Taipei Times reported Friday.
“We have great respect for Jensen,” said Sriram Krishnan, a senior policy adviser for AI at the White House, in an interview with Bloomberg Television. “There remains bipartisan and widespread concern about the potential implications of these GPUs once they are physically in China,” Krishnan stated.
Although the administration continues to view the expansion of AI chip exports to China as a national security concern, Krishnan noted that he agrees with Huang on the need to reassess restrictions on a broader range of U.S. trading partners.
According to the Taipei Times, the Trump administration plans to reverse a regulation on AI diffusion put in place by former President Joe Biden. Krishnan explained that the previous policy created a divide between “GPU haves and GPU have-nots.”
“When it pertains to the rest of the world, we aim for an American AI ecosystem that starts from the GPUs and extends to the models and everything built upon that,” Krishnan said. “On this point, Jensen and I share common ground,” he added.
Krishnan’s remarks came in response to Huang’s most pointed public criticism yet of the growing U.S. export restrictions targeting China. Speaking at the Computex industry conference in Taipei, Huang labeled the measures a “failure” and urged the U.S. to scale back barriers on chip sales to China.
Huang warned that U.S. companies risk losing significant market share to competitors such as Huawei Technologies Co. if restrictions persist. He noted that China could represent a $50 billion opportunity in the coming year, according to the Taipei Times.
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