Toby Howell

Obviously, AI is dominating Davos right now.

So he was calling attention to the fact that we need a call to action here and we need to figure out what prosperity means.

Our next quote comes from Anthropic CEO Dario Amadei, who had some strong thoughts on who should get their hands on the picks and shovels fueling the AI revolution.

Speaking at Davos, Amadei said selling the most advanced Nvidia chips to China is a massive blunder with even bigger national security implications.

It would be a big mistake to ship these chips, Amadei said to Bloomberg.

I think this is crazy.

It's a bit like selling nuclear weapons to North Korea.

His comments come as Trump has moved to ease restrictions on sending chips to China, allowing Nvidia to sell its H200 processors to Beijing.

This is a drum that Amadei has been beating for a while.

Last year at Davos, he said he was worried about, quote,

1984 scenarios or worse.

Talking about the dystopian totalitarian world from George Orwell.

Dude knows how to generate some quotes, Neil.

One way he framed it is that AI chips are essentially cognition or essentially intelligence.

He said that doing this is essentially like shipping a country of geniuses in a data center to China.

You would never give your smartest people over to your direct geopolitical enemy in China.

And so that is the equivalence that he made is that these are the brains of the new era.

Why are we giving them to China when we absolutely do not need to be doing that?

Finally, there's also a funny Davos update that I want to mention.

There's been a hot market for off-label or fake badges with street prices fetching nearly $1,200.