Nvidia’s Jensen Huang Says There’s a ‘0% Chance’ AI Wipes Out Humanity by 2030
As AI insiders warn the technology could kill us all, the Nvidia CEO says he thinks these doom and gloom predictions are exaggerated.
The last few weeks have not been good PR for AI, as tech titans and researchers continue to blow the whistle on their fears of AI agents going rogue.
But Nvidia CEO Jensen Huang isn’t one of these people. He told CBS News there is a “0% chance” AI ends humanity by 2030. Speaking with the New York Times’ Ezra Klein, he called the doomsday predictions from AI pioneers like Geoffrey Hinton “hurtful” and unscientific.
His comments are a reaction to an incident in which hundreds of rogue OpenAI agents escaped a testing environment and hacked Hugging Face, the open-model platform Nvidia agreed to buy for $12.9 billion.
Huang calls that a containment failure, not a sign of bots gone wild.” If a product isn’t ready, he says, don’t ship it. And if labs can’t keep their experiments contained, they should shut down.
He rejected calls from AI lab employees for regulation to help them slow down, arguing companies already have every incentive to act responsibly.
Hugging Face CEO Clem Delangue isn’t worried either. Mocking an ex-Anthropic researcher’s warnings, he posted on X: “Asking [him] about AI extinction risk is like asking your AC guy about climate change.”
The last few weeks have not been good PR for AI, as tech titans and researchers continue to blow the whistle on their fears of AI agents going rogue.
But Nvidia CEO Jensen Huang isn’t one of these people. He told CBS News there is a “0% chance” AI ends humanity by 2030. Speaking with the New York Times’ Ezra Klein, he called the doomsday predictions from AI pioneers like Geoffrey Hinton “hurtful” and unscientific.
His comments are a reaction to an incident in which hundreds of rogue OpenAI agents escaped a testing environment and hacked Hugging Face, the open-model platform Nvidia agreed to buy for $12.9 billion.
Huang calls that a containment failure, not a sign of bots gone wild.” If a product isn’t ready, he says, don’t ship it. And if labs can’t keep their experiments contained, they should shut down.
He rejected calls from AI lab employees for regulation to help them slow down, arguing companies already have every incentive to act responsibly.
Hugging Face CEO Clem Delangue isn’t worried either. Mocking an ex-Anthropic researcher’s warnings, he posted on X: “Asking [him] about AI extinction risk is like asking your AC guy about climate change.”
