I think he's out on a thin limb.

If there's one thing people who espouse "reasonable pro-AI" views push, is that the US has to go ahead building chatbots because otherwise the Chinese will beat us.

In the current point in time, AI is under perceived attack by the Democrats (I doubt they'll go against the lobbyists but w/e) and the US Right has realized that no-one really likes Big Tech - they're convenient scapegoats for all sorts of things. Sure they want billionaires in charge but people like Sam Altman aren't really their kinds of people.

Throwing the book at Jensen would help both sides.

Depends on if there’s anyone left in the US govt who’d be interested in upholding all that stuff about not exporting top tier AI server components to geopolitical rivals I’d guess.

Imo I can see both outcomes: Trump and Nvidia pulling strings and bending the rules to keep Huang in for the sake of the markets/protecting Trump’s precious ‘SI’ companies, and Trump getting pissed because of selling to China/GOP using him as a scapegoat and having him forcefully resign

yc commenter:

I can see his remorse and genuine care for his family which makes me feel a bit sad.

I can barely imagine extending such good will to a family member if they willingly cheated, let alone a trillion dollar company CEO I've never met.

Parasocial tendencies are weird.