Huang now joins Trump in his Asia tour, ahead of the President’s meeting with Xi Jinping.
Nvidia’s first ever GTC to be hosted in Washington D.C. a conference that’s been deemed the “Super Bowl of AI”—was a rare occasion that brought together both government officials and the tech industry under one roof.
It was an opportunity for the tech executives in attendance to advocate for industry friendly policies straight to the government. Unsurprisingly, CEO Jensen Huang was first to take advantage of that opportunity to the fullest.
“America needs to be the most aggressive in adopting AI technology of any country in the world, bar none, and that is an imperative. We can’t regulate our way out of this, we can’t fear-monger our way out of this,” Huang said in a press and industry briefing. “We have to encourage every single company, every single student, to use AI.”
The leather jacket-clad executive spent most of his crowd-facing time repeating Trump administration talking points on bringing back manufacturing or lauding the President. He also spent time trying to make the case for the normalization of trade ties with China.
“As it turns out, the best benefit to United States is for American technology to be available in China to win the hearts and minds of their developers,” Huang said. “A policy that causes America to lose half of the world’s AI developers is not beneficial long term, it hurts us more. It hurts America more than it hurts them.”
Huang also argued that because China is a huge creator of open source software, if Americans retreat completely from China they might risk being “ill-prepared” for when Chinese software “permeates the world.”
The U.S.-China trade war has impacted so many parts of the global economy, but the tech industry has been at the forefront, with Nvidia right in the bullseye.
