Faisal Islam: What Jensen Huang told me about China, national security and persuading Trump

However, his view about "zero-sum game" is not backed by many in national security circles.

Their view is that the race to the most advanced forms of AI is entirely zero sum, and requires the West - and the US in particular - to take critical action to hold back Chinese advancement.

The country that creates the most powerful AI systems, from the most powerful chips, will win, in terms of scientific development, of cracking encryption, economic growth and cyber-weapons.

He made a further argument: Far from being a national security challenge, it was, in fact, better for the US that the world "including China" became dependent on US systems, what they called the "American tech stack", with Nvidia chips at its core.