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Nvidia's Jensen Huang Calls AI Doomsday Warnings 'Irresponsible'
Nvidia CEO Jensen Huang said predictions of an AI catastrophe by 2030 are not grounded in science and suggested industry leaders issuing dire warnings may have ulterior motives.
Nvidia CEO Jensen Huang has rejected the dire warnings about artificial intelligence that have become a staple of the industry's public debate, calling predictions of an AI-driven apocalypse by 2030 «irresponsible» and disconnected from reality.
In an interview with CBS, Huang said there is «a 0% chance» that the world will end in 2030 because of AI. While acknowledging that safety concerns are legitimate, he argued that the industry's most alarming public statements are not grounded in science and that frightening the public serves no constructive purpose.
«I believe the claims of the end of the world, stirring fear across America, and doing it by the people who are doing it makes no sense to me, so they must be doing it for ulterior reasons,» Huang said. «It is irresponsible, and I don't know what their motives are.»
Huang's position carries particular weight because Nvidia supplies the chips that power much of the AI industry's expansion. The company's market value has surged alongside demand for its processors, making it the most valuable company in the world and giving its chief executive a central voice in how the technology's risks are framed.
Rather than treating AI safety as primarily a regulatory problem, Huang described it as an engineering challenge. He said companies should devote resources to safety and verification, and that existing laws and regulations should be used to hold them accountable before lawmakers rush to create new rules specifically for AI.
«If we're compromising safety, that can't happen,» he said. «We should go as fast as we can, but not faster than we should.»
He also suggested that some calls for regulation may be less about public protection than about escaping existing obligations. «Go and read between the lines,» Huang said. «They're actually not asking for more laws. They're asking to be relieved of the laws we do have.» He added: «Don't let this doomsday narrative cause somebody to relieve them of the laws that currently exist.»
Huang's comments come amid a broader political fight over how to govern AI. President Donald Trump has rejected calls for increased AI regulation, saying existing criminal and civil law can handle the concerns. On Saturday, he announced he would form an «AI Force,» modeled on Space Force, and appoint an AI «czar,» though he named no one and gave no timeline for either.
«Whoever wins AI, WINS,» Trump posted on Truth Social. «We are leading now over China, and everyone else, and I'm going to keep it that way! I'm not going to stifle growth of something that will be bigger than the Industrial Revolution, or the Internet itself.»
The debate has exposed a split within the industry. Anthropic CEO Dario Amodei has called for slowing the development of capable models so companies can establish safety precautions, and has proposed independent safety evaluators and international cooperation among frontier AI firms. OpenAI CEO Sam Altman, after previously arguing that regulation would hinder AI companies, said in July that society may need time to adapt to new capability levels and that the industry should consider ways to slow development.
Elon Musk, the CEO of SpaceX and Tesla, has also endorsed the concern, writing on X that he had been «sounding the alarm on AI for a long time.»
The warnings have extended beyond executives. Jacob Coxon, a former researcher at both OpenAI and Anthropic, publicly resigned from Anthropic in September, writing on X that the companies were «racing straight to self-improving superintelligence» and essentially «gambling with our lives.» His post went viral and drew more than 170 million views.
Separately, a public letter signed by more than 1,300 employees at leading AI companies called on governments, industry leaders and society to have the ability to buy time and address emerging risks. Amodei was among those who signed it.
Huang's intervention places the world's most valuable chipmaker at odds with some of the most prominent voices in the field it supplies. His argument is that the industry can move quickly while still treating safety as an engineering discipline, and that the most extreme public warnings risk distorting both public understanding and the legal environment in which AI companies operate.
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