US Will Retain China Chip Restrictions Despite AI Policy Shift: Adviser

Senior White House policy adviser on artificial intelligence Sriram Krishnan said on May 21 that the United States will retain export controls on China, responding to Nvidia CEO Jensen Huang’s call to ease restrictions. Huang had discussed U.S. AI policy at a tech conference in Taiwan on May 19, crediting President Donald Trump for recognizing that a new approach was needed. The United States began using export controls to block the Chinese communist regime from obtaining advanced semiconductor chips during the Biden administration, but Huang said that “all in all, the export control was a failure.” U.S. agencies, lawmakers, and experts have acknowledged that the Chinese regime continued to obtain access to restricted chips by circumventing controls with loopholes, middlemen, and smuggling....