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Inside the Biden Administration's Gamble to Freeze China’s AI Future
What really motivated the US government to ban Nvidia from selling powerful computer chips to China?
Alan Estevez was sitting at his dining room table wearing a t-shirt when Secretary of Commerce Gina Raimondo called on Zoom to ask if he wanted to be the Biden administration’s top export control official. In 2020, the Trump administration turned this long-arm tool on Huawei, explicitly targeting the company’s “efforts to obtain advanced semiconductors developed or produced from US software and technology,” as Commerce Secretary Wilbur Ross said at the time. Essentially a think tank housed inside Georgetown University, CSET was launched with a $55 million grant from Open Philanthropy, a group aligned with the effective altruism movement that funds work addressing issues ranging from “potential risks from advanced artificial intelligence” to global health.
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