Dario Amodei said the President’s decision to allow the sale of AI chips to China is like “selling nuclear weapons to North Korea.”
https://www.axios.com/2026/01/20/anthropic-ceo-admodei-nvidia-chips-china-trump
Dario Amodei said the President’s decision to allow the sale of AI chips to China is like “selling nuclear weapons to North Korea.”
https://www.axios.com/2026/01/20/anthropic-ceo-admodei-nvidia-chips-china-trump
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“The U.S. is many years ahead of China when it comes to making chips, and sending them there could help Beijing catch up, Anthropic CEO Amodei said in an interview:
* Referring to building AI models, Amodei posed: “I’ve called where we’re going with this, a country of geniuses in a data center.”
* “So imagine 100 million people smarter than any Nobel Prize winner, and it’s going to be under the control of one country or another.”
On the Hill, top Republicans like House Foreign Affairs Committee Chair Brian Mast (R-Fla.) are pushing legislation that would prevent China from accessing sensitive U.S. technology.”
Then it’s also like letting 5 rich private citizens build nukes
Can we please stop pretending that the GOP cares about American security or the American people? Seriously. They’re threatening war against our allies and giving every possible advantage to our enemies while making every effort to brutalize and imprison any citizens who disagree with the leader. America is being run as a business. Unfortunately that business is in the Trump empire and his business has always been grift and corruption. If it makes money for him and his billionaire friends he’s going to do it.
Isn’t that like the last piece of the puzzle China needs?
They are ahead in clean energy production because they invested years ago, so I figure they’re 100% ready for data centers and the massive amount of power required for them.
Also, a bit unrelated (but not really), China is the only country on earth capable of properly refining rare earth minerals, because again, they invested in research and infrastructure for it years ago.
So that means they have energy production + minerals / metals to mass produce technology + cheap labor and now the intelligence?
Someone me if I’m mistaken in my assessment
How would he frame China selling rare earths to US to make nuclear weapons
Crossing my fingers that China completely demolishes the scumbag chip makers from our side so their petty monopoly crumbles.
$600 ram kits is absurd price gouging pure and simple. They cut production down dramatically after covid so we wouldnt get any ideas about cheap silicone.
Chinese open source models are the only thing that keep me from using closed source models, especially for coding where his product focus is.
If Canada makes a deal with China we get 100% tariffs? To Trump, fuxk off and just dye already
He’d do that too, if it benefitted him personally.
When are people going to figure out that he only cares about himself?
Yep. But if it puts money in Donald’s pocket, who cares???? <SMH>
There are some really smart people who are really dumb. North Korea already has nukes.
As much as I may dislike the CCP, DeepSeek was forced to find alternatives to getting the latest GPUs, so they developed an N-Gram system that greately reduces computing requirements.
They are doing a fantastic work, chinese scientists.
But will North Korea pay for nukes to a Qatar bank account??
As a Chinese, I can tell you that the most devastating sanction against China is the ban on TSMC. China has no shortage of chip design engineers or LLM engineers. As long as Chinese chip manufacturers can freely use TSMC’s production capacity, China can replicate 10 companies like DeepSeek within a few years.
If Trump thought he could personally make money off selling nukes to N Korea, he would.
Not a fan of the CCP but this quote could definitely use a “for my business” appended to it. He obviously just doesn’t want the competition. Him, Sam, and many others are just doing an awful job of directing the discussion around LLMs, away from being useful tools to instead being human replacements, constantly hyping AGI, scaring people with nonsense about models “breaking free.” It was fun in the early days but it’s so obvious now that it’s just cynical and deceptive, catering to the worst inclinations of American business culture, and pushing a promising technology into pariah status.
That’s coming next with this shit__stain of a Fuhrer.
The reason for this is that China is currently developing alternatives to American made AI technologies. If they ban the sale of said technologies too early then China will invest more into their own tech. From a national security perspective you want them to be reliant on the US.
If AI systems are the new nuclear weapon then why tf should we let private citizens like him develop them without regulation?
short sighted. restricted supply means they learn to do more with less, see Deep seek