In the midst of the global career for the control of artificial intelligence, the United States is preparing a strategic movement to prevent its most powerful chips from ending up in unwanted hands. A new one Legislative proposal In the USA seeks to force companies like Nvidia to integrate Tracking and remote dwarf mechanisms in its GPUwith the aim of detecting If they end in China or other destinations with restrictions. In other words, Trump wants to kill gunflows, because he is unable to prevent black hardware traffic for AI, so he will address the problem from its extreme.
This legal offensive responds to a real problem that has ceased to be anecdotal and has become rather surreal. GPU smuggling towards China has become increasingly ingenious, with methods as crazy as hiding them between living lobsters or even under the belief of pregnant women. All this to skip the export controls and sanctions imposed by the United States, and of course, Trump reacts from his side of the board.
USA will integrate trace and remote deactivation mechanisms for NVIDIA GPUs
Everything has to calm down so that this does not end and that it is forgotten. Trump goes with everything to stop his great rival, and since neither the adjacent countries and partners of China, as well as the large distributors are able to stop the wave of money that arrives from the XI Jinping companies as bribesAmericans now want Geolocalize and be able to deactivate your hardware at any time.
“It is not a hypothetical problem of the future. It is a current problem, and at some point we will discover that the Chinese communist party, or its army, You are designing weapons using large chips matricesor even working in general artificial intelligence, which is as urgent as nuclear technology, “Bill Foster warned.
Foster, Particle exfísico and current Democratic congressmanHe is the one who is leading this bipartisan proposal. Its plan does not contemplate a GPS style millimeter tracking system, but a more general solution: Get the GPUs to send signals to a server. Depending on the time it takes for that signal to arrive, its approximate location could be estimated, sufficient to detect if they have ended in restricted territory. Easy, fast and subtle.
Nvidia says that this is not possible, Google proves that it is true
And here comes the crossing of statements in time, where Nvidia said a long time ago “You can’t track products once sold,” When asked about the fate of his Jetson products in the second -hand market. But that does not imply that it is not possible. Google currently tracks the ubicaicon of its AI chips in its data centers throughout the planet arguing security purposes.
Therefore, it can be, although the project does not remain alone in the location. It also raises the incorporation of a mechanism for remotely deactivate the chips that mock export restrictions. The concept would be similar to that of a stocks for a poorly parked car: although the chip is in place, it could not start or operate if it is detected that it is in a forbidden area.
Obviously, this will bring a giant controversy shortly, since it focuses on monitor Leave inoperative hardware for the reason you want to inventor being real, it is indifferent.
This was put on the table not long ago with f-35 fighters, where it has been very arductive to the fact that they integrate a remote deactivation mechanism so that the US is guaranteed that they are not used against them. Therefore, we are facing a similar situation in concept, where the US wants to implement a rudimentary tracking system and another deactivation in the NVIDIA GPUs, and surely, This ends up affecting AMD and Intel for obvious reasons.
