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Jensen Huang lobbied to sell chips to China. Then offered to join the Beijing trip

published · May 8, 4:56 PM · $0.06 total · published 51d ago
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Jensen Huang lobbying Trump to re-open advanced AI chip sales to China, then saying he'd 'gladly join' the Beijing trip if invited, is a clean illustration of how export controls actually work under competitive pressure. The policy exists. The companies subject to it are simultaneously the companies with the most access to the decision-makers who set it. Aaron's angle: this isn't corruption, it's the structural logic of having no independent governance body. When the people building the thing are also the people advising on the rules for the thing, the rules will reflect the builders' interests. The Nvidia/Huang angle is the named hook; the governance gap is the actual subject.

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Jensen Huang told Bloomberg he had lobbied Trump to reopen advanced AI chip sales to China's market. He then told CNBC that if invited to join the Beijing delegation, it would be "a great honor to represent the United States."

This is not corruption. It's the structural logic of having no independent governance body. Export controls on AI hardware are a genuine policy instrument. The companies subject to those controls are also the companies with the most access to the people who set them. Nvidia is not doing anything outside the rules. Nvidia is helping write the rules, which is a different problem.

When the entity building the most strategically significant technology in the world is also the entity advising on how that technology should be restricted, the restrictions will reflect the builder's interests. That's not a scandal. It's what happens when you have no governance structure that isn't downstream of the industry it's supposed to govern. The Beijing trip is a good illustration. The chip policy is the actual subject.

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Jensen Huang lobbied on chip export policy then offered to join the Beijing trip. The policy is the least interesting part. #ai #geopolitics #tech #governance

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