NVIDIA’s chief security officer has published a blog post insisting that his GPUs should not “and should not have switches and backdoors.” This comes between pressure from both sides of the Pacific, some US lawmakers have called on NVIDIA to give AI chips backdoor to the government, while Chinese officials have alleged that they are already present.
“To reduce the risk of misuse, some pundits and policy makers have been suggested that they require hardware ‘total switches’ or built -in controls that can disable GPU without user knowledge and consent,”
The Reber Junior says, “There is nothing like a” good “secret backdoor,” just the dangerous risks that need to be eliminated. “He called the total switches” an open invitation to destruction “, before its desired audiences are US policy makers:” This is not a good policy. This is over to a certain extent that will irreparably damage the interests of US economic and national security. “
Both NVIDIA and the US government would like the company to become a dominant supplier of AI chips to China, but the proposal for direct US access to hardware could pose a threat. Chinese chip companies are permanently improving their performance and production capacity, as China searches a substitute alternative. This increases the possibility that NVIDIA will be occupied by a company Huawei, which knows one or two things about losing more market share than the alleged government.
