President Trump is facing pushbacks growing on several fronts on his administration’s decision to allow Nvidia to sell his H20 chips to China, a step that critics argue that Artificial Intelligence (AI) can give Beijing a leg in the race to develop Artificial Intelligence (AI).
A group of former National Security Officers and Tech Policy Advocates on Monday expressed concern over the verdict to Commerce Secretary Howard Lutynik to conduct reverse courses in a letter on Monday and at least one major Republican.
,[W]E believes that the step represents a strategic misunderstanding, decisively seen in the global leadership of the 21st century, which endangers the United States’ economic and military edge in Artificial Intelligence (AI).
The Trump administration initially banned the sale of NVidia’s H20 chips in China in May, but the chipmaker announced earlier this month that it was again taking steps to sell chips after receiving assurances from the government that his licenses would be given.
Lutnik indicated that the decision was part of a broad rare earth deal with Beijing, while arguing that they were only receiving Nvidia’s “fourth best” chip.
However, it has done much less to meet concerns. Monday’s letter argues that H20 is not an old chip and still limits China’s AI capabilities, while limiting the number of chips available to the US
It also suggested that the move would weaken the effectiveness of export control and encourage bezing to get more concessions from Washington.
Reps. Raja Krishnamurthy (D-Il), the top democrats on the House Selection Committee on the Chinese Communist Party, and the top Democrat of the House Foreign Affairs Committee, Gregory Mix (DN.Y.), similarly expressed concern on Sunday that administration is using export control as “chip of bargaining”.
The MPs wrote in a letter, “This approach eradicates the credibility of our export control regime, stains the line between economic and safety priorities, and sends a dangerous signal that significant railings are ready for interaction.”
Two Democrats suggested that they “no longer believe” is following the “rigid, evidence-based inter-process process” required to determine export control under the administration law.
“It is clear that this administration is gambling for our national security and our economy for President Trump’s trade war that is harming American families, workers and consumers,” he said.
His letter was followed by another from Senate Democrats, including Senate Minority Leaders Chak Shumar (NY) and Sensor Mark Warner (W.), Jack Reid (RI), Elizabeth Warren (Mass) and Chris Cons (Dell).
He argued that the decision to allow China to sell H20 unveils the AI action plan of the Trump administration last week, which focused a lot on winning the AI race with China.
The senators wrote in Monday’s letter, “Remarkable, the administration’s own AI action plan can actually increase the loss of rescuing these controls.”
,[B]Y aggressively supports the proliferation of powerful open weight models from American firms, as well as PRC firms access to the leading chips to figure out those models and deploy them millions of global users on H20-competent PRC Cloud Infrastructure, administration, administration, Administration has reduced the PRC efforts to challenge the US AI leader to challenge the PRC efforts to challenge the PRC efforts. Is done.
At least one major Republican has also talked about the decision-Rap. John Mulanar (R-Mich.), Chairman of House Select Committee on Chinese Communist Party.
He warned Lutnik earlier this month in a letter that allowing H20 in China could promote his AI capabilities and the Department of Commerce was urged to limit export control over the current capabilities of Beijing to “minor technical improvements”.
Trump’s chip policy is also facing investigation in other cases. After re -introducing the AI Prasar Rules of former President Biden in May, Trump has so far introduced a replacement structure.
Apart from a few selected American colleagues, the propagation rule laid a curb on the sale of chip in most countries around the world.
Several House Republicans led by Rape Mark Alford (R-Mo) urged the Trump administration in the letter earlier this month to provide a “stable export structure” to change the rule.
Trump last week asked his decision to refund the defusion rules to focus on the export of American technology abroad of his AI action plan, which he described as the “extreme restriction” of the biden administration on chip exports.
