America’s AI secrets are leaking — and not just because of the Nvidia spy scandal
How is it possible that an alleged Chinese spy so easily embedded into Nvidia, one of the world’s most valuable companies and a huge strategic asset to America in the global AI race?
Key points
- The Canadian Security Intelligence Service (CSIS) said 'cultivation' — which includes romantic entanglements — is an effective tool deployed by intelligence services.
- intelligence agencies believe a woman who had an affair with Jensen Huang was a Chinese asset.
- But there is much more that they are still assessing about her role.
Instead America got Jensen Huang, the CEO of AI chipmaker Nvidia, who resigned Thursday after admitting that he’d had just such an affair.
Additional details
- What’s even more disturbing, however, is that Nvidia is just the tip of the iceberg.
- The spy scandal raises serious questions about security in the AI corporate world.
- And Anthropic recently justified heavily redacting a key independent report on its AI progress by claiming that it can’t afford to let China glean its secrets.
- The woman in question, Alice Huang, worked for a company called Megaspeed, which was buying billions of dollars’ worth of chips from Nvidia.
- | Kevin Dietsch/Getty Images TORONTO — When a company is building technology that could totally transform the world — technology so high-stakes and secretive that it may underpin the future of geopolitics — you might expect its leaders to have a handle on the basics of security.
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