'I think it's a bit like selling nuclear weapons to North Korea and bragging' — Anthropic's CEO warns Davos about letting Nvidia sell AI chips to China

Press shot of an Nvidia chip.

• Anthropic CEO Dario Amodei warned at Davos that allowing Nvidia to sell AI chips to China poses serious national security risks
• Amodei compared the decision to “selling nuclear weapons to North Korea,” despite Nvidia being a major investor in his company
• The clash highlights rising industry tension over how AI hardware should be controlled as global powers race to build advanced systems

Anthropic CEO Dario Amodei cut through the polished choreography of the World Economic Forum in Davos this week when he flatly implied that Nvidia, one of his own company's biggest backers, was a 'nuclear' threat to geopolitics during an interview with Bloomberg.