By TOI Tech Desk
Publication Date: 2026-05-03 08:36:00
Nvidia CEO Jensen Huang has a proposal for cooling down the US-China AI arms race: talk to each other. In a wide-ranging April 15 conversation on the Dwarkesh Podcast, Huang said the single most glaring gap in the current standoff between the two superpowers isn’t chips, energy, or even algorithms—it’s communication. And unlike the supply chain bottlenecks he spends most of his time solving, this one has no technical fix. “It is essential that our AI researchers and their AI researchers are actually talking,” Huang said. “It is essential that we try to both agree on what not to use the AI for.”He called the absence of that dialogue “glaringly missing” given today’s adversarial posture between Washington and Beijing—and suggested that no export control policy can substitute for the kind of direct scientific exchange that used to exist between the two countries during less fraught times.
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