Silverado Co-founder and Co-chair Dmitri Alperovitch featured in Inside AI Policy

The following is a quote from Silverado Co-founder and Co-chair Dmitri Alperovitch featured in Inside AI Policy’s article, “Sacks questions allegations behind Huang ouster, as congressional pressure mounts over security concerns.”

A cyber leader responds

But Dmitri Alperovitch, chairman of the Silverado Policy Accelerator, said, “Whether or not Alice Huang had been recruited by the Chinese Ministry of State Security has always been a tertiary issue. What’s quite clear is that:”

1. She has been a large Nvidia customer (and a sexual relationship with her is highly problematic from a corporate policy and governance perspective for Jensen on those grounds alone)
2. She is controlling a shell company Megaspeed dedicated to smuggling compute to both US Government-listed Chinese AI companies and to data center build outs in China itself - all in serious violation of US law, potentially making Jensen part of a criminal conspiracy to evade US export controls.
3. She is connected to an entire web of Chinese shell companies trying to do the same. Jensen wasn’t fired because he had an affair with an alleged MSS agent.”

Alperovitch, the cofounder and former CTO of CrowdStrike, argued that Huang “was fired because he:”

4. Had at least one and now, quite plausibly, multiple affairs with people in his reporting chain in violation of company policy. Something that has gotten numerous CEOs fired over the years, including at Intel and McDonalds.
5. Lied to his board about his relationship and forced the company to put out false statements to the public, putting it in legal jeopardy.
6. Was involved in a sexual relationship with a Chinese smuggler that had violated US export controls laws and provided her with billions of dollars of Nvidia chips that facilitate that criminal activity.
7. By lying and hiding that relationship from his family, the company, and the public, he put himself in a position to be blackmailed by Chinese intelligence services.
8. He very likely ordered his general counsel to interfere in an investigation by US government into his mistress’ smuggling operation.
9. He presided over stunning and extensive compliance failures to investigate and prevent his chips from being smuggled illegally into Chinese mainland and being provided to PLA affiliated institutions, all in violation of US law. This is a shocking indictment of him and his record and the board clearly had no alternative but to fire him.