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S8 Ep710: 12. AI SMUGGLING AND CIVILIAN-MILITARY FUSION. DAVID SHEDD AND JACK BURNHAM. The guests detail illicit efforts to smuggle Nvidia chips and steal American AI models through "adversarial distillation". They highlight China’s strategic plan to acquire Wester

The John Batchelor Show

John Batchelor

Society & Culture, Arts, News, Books

4.52.8K Ratings

🗓️ 8 April 2026

⏱️ 10 minutes

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12. AI SMUGGLING AND CIVILIAN-MILITARY FUSION. DAVID SHEDD AND JACK BURNHAM. The guests detail illicit efforts to smuggle Nvidia chips and steal American AI models through "adversarial distillation". They highlight China’s strategic plan to acquire Western innovation without the investment. (12)

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0:51.3

a new book about Chinese espionage, sabotage, theft, plain old

0:57.3

larceny in the American and allied markets, and Jack Burner, my research analyst at the China

1:04.4

program to give me understanding of the scale of this. I want to mention, David, a recent article

1:09.8

that Jack and I talked about on air,

1:12.9

smugglers, alleged smuggling, yes. Chinese firms, Chinese nationals in this country were buying

1:21.7

legitimate products and shipping them to overseas, to Singapore is my memory, but all of Southeast Asia.

1:29.6

And then what happened next is the allegation.

1:34.0

Is this, Jack, an example of you, what you say they just rip it out and send it,

1:39.3

or was it more sophisticated than that?

1:43.6

I think this is a case in which what you're seeing here is effectively a dual-use network,

1:50.0

particularly for AI technologies.

1:51.6

So you have a lot of AI firms within the United States that have very legitimate business

1:57.0

in Southeast Asia, which is the hub of a significant buildout of AI data centers.

2:01.7

I mean, you have the kind of a combination of some of the world's largest economies,

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