David Cowan
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David Cowan is a recurring person in the Astral Codex Ten archive, appearing 2 times across 2 issues between October 30, 2025 and November 26, 2025. The archive places it in contexts such as “David Cowan makes the case here: NVIDIA Is A National Security Risk”; “Foundation for American Innovation fellow David Cowan goes further”. It most often appears alongside Anthropic, China, DC.
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- Category: People
- Mention count: 2
- Issue count: 2
- First seen: October 30, 2025
- Last seen: November 26, 2025
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Related Pages
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- Anthropic (2 shared issues)
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- China (2 shared issues)
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- DC (2 shared issues)
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- Dean Ball (2 shared issues)
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- NVIDIA (2 shared issues)
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- NYT (2 shared issues)
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- OpenAI (2 shared issues)
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- Steven Adler (2 shared issues)
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- 767 AD (1 shared issues)
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- 11 (1 shared issues)
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- @Scientific_Bird (1 shared issues)
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- ACX (1 shared issues)
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Recovered passages from the original issue text. When the raw archive preserved outbound links inside the source passage, they are listed directly under the quote.
41: Related: NVIDIA is emerging as a new villain in US tech policy; they really want to be allowed to sell advanced technology to China, and are swinging their weight as World’s Largest Company to undermine anyone who who raises national security objections. David Cowan makes the case here: NVIDIA Is A National Security Risk. Steven Adler goes further, saying there is “widespread fear” among think tank researchers who publish work against NVIDIA’s interests. You would think that whatever the disadvantages of having an super-nationalist America First administration in power, at least they would be strongly against handing key military tech to rivals - but it’s not clear which way this will end up going.
It gets worse. NVIDIA, America’s biggest company, constantly lobbies to be allowed to sell its advanced chips to China. It’s not afraid to play dirty, and stands accused of trying to get China hawks pushed out of government for resisting; Steven Adler reports “widespread fear among think tank researchers and policy experts who publish work against NVIDIA’s interests”. Foundation for American Innovation fellow David Cowan goes further, saying that “NVIDIA is a national security risk”.
Inline links: Steven Adler reports, “NVIDIA is a national security risk”