Nvidia’s Jensen Huang should have known better

Nvidia Corp. chief executive officer and cofounder Jensen Huang has discovered that when you’re probably the world’s most important CEO, what could be considered a personal lapse in judgment for most can quickly spiral into a corporate crisis on a global scale.

This should not have come as a huge shock: Huang should have known that there is no such thing as a private life at his level. But his recent admission that he had an extramarital affair with a suspected Chinese spy has repercussions that extend far beyond Huang and the company he runs; it threatens to inject a new level of uncertainty into the entire artificial intelligence ecosystem.