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"Semiconductors [are] an unbelievably complicated business," said Anja Manuel, executive director of the Aspen Strategy Group and the Aspen Security Forum. "The United States absolutely leads in design of chips and we lead ... on creating the machines that make the chips. We are not as good at the fabs, which is actual manufacturing of the chips, because that was considered low margin. Our companies didn't want to do it."
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"But there are certain areas where AI intersects with national security that can be extraordinarily dangerous, and we are and we should continue to talk to the Chinese about that," she added.
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