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The Independent UK
The Independent UK
Technology
Anthony Cuthbertson

AI boss says chip sales to China ‘like selling nuclear weapons to North Korea’

HACKEO-IA - (AP)

The chief executive of a leading artificial intelligence startup has labelled the US’s decision to allow the sale of powerful AI chips to China as “crazy”, likening it to selling nuclear weapons to North Korea.

Anthropic CEO Dario Amodei said the Trump administration’s move last week to approve Chinese sales of Nvidia’s H200 chip – the company’s second most powerful AI chip – had “incredible national security implications” for the US.

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