The Jensen Huang Crisis for AI

This episode of Radio Atlantic taped before Nvidia CEO Jensen Huang’s resignation.

The AI race between the United States and China heated up in a different way this week: Nvidia CEO Jensen Huang admitted to having an affair with a woman who is reportedly a Chinese spy. Days later, news of a second affair broke, this one with an Nvidia executive who reports to Huang. The board met on Wednesday to consider the future of the man who’s seen as indispensable to his company and the American AI effort at large. What would happen with his ouster? And what do we know about how far the alleged espionage went?

The Atlantic’s staff writers Shane Harris, who covers national intelligence, and Charlie Warzel, who covers tech and hosts the Atlantic podcast “Galaxy Brain,” explain how this may have happened, how Silicon Valley’s responded, and why this could destabilize the U.S. economy.

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