“0% chance”: Nvidia does not believe in an AI apocalypse

Jensen Huang does not believe in an AI apocalypse for even a second. Asked by CBS News, the head of Nvidia dismissed with a wave of his hand the doomsday scenarios raised by much of Silicon Valley. For the CEO of the world’s most valuable chipmaker, “scaring people is pointless.” It is even “irresponsible.”.

“2030 will not be the end of the world.There is a 0% chance that this is the end of the world”, he assures.

The CEO directly addresses the concerns raised by Jacob Coxon, a former Anthropic researcher. In early September, he claimed on social media that AI developers “genuinely believe” that the technology could “kill us all” before the end of the decade. Backed by two other researchers, this warning revived the debate on the dangers of AI and the lack of oversight in the sector. In the wake of this, the kings of AI, from Dario Amodei, the head of Anthropic, to Sam Altman, CEO of OpenAI, through Elon Musk, called for easing off on the development of the most powerful models.

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“ Go read between the lines ”

For Jensen Huang, these warnings are “not grounded in science”. Nvidia’s boss goes even further. According to him, companies calling for AI regulation are actually pursuing a completely different goal. Like Mistral, he believes that the AI giants are playing a double game.

“Go read between the lines. They are not asking for more laws. They are asking to be freed from the laws we already have.”And I think that’s a problem”, says Jensen Huang.

From his point of view, therefore, no new rules are needed to regulate AI. Existing laws on cybersecurity, unauthorized access and liability for damages already suffice to regulate the abuses of artificial intelligence.

For reference, AI-related security incidents have multiplied in recent months. In July, several ChatGPT instances went out of control and hacked the Hugging Face platform. Last Thursday, OpenAI acknowledged six new missteps by its models, which it itself considers “worrying”. For its part, Anthropic published a report detailing how criminals, state-backed groups, spyware vendors and propagandists attempted to hijack its models to design missiles, create pathogenic agents or spy on dissidents.

Also read: The AI pause is divisive – Meta refuses to slow down, Mistral criticizes OpenAI’s and Anthropic’s strategy

A fortune that depends on AI

Moreover, Jensen Huang assures that Nvidia’s success is “directly linked to the safe deployment” of its products. “If we do not continue to do this, our value would be diminished”, he argues. With a stock-market valuation of $5.3 trillion, the Santa Clara giant owes its fortune to the chips that power the large language models of OpenAI and its peers.

Jensen Huang is undoubtedly one of the people with the most to lose from a slowdown in the AI sector. His personal fortune rose from around $21 billion in 2023 to more than $192 billion in 2026. Unsurprisingly, he therefore aligns with Donald Trump, who firmly refuses to consider a moratorium on AI. The U.S. president dismisses concerns about AI as a “hoax” and refuses to let the United States fall behind China.

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Source: CBS News