Nvidia CEO Jensen Huang has emerged as the biggest foil to AI doomerism about the existential risk to humanity

Nvidia CEO Jensen Huang has repeatedly rejected warnings about AI’s existential threat to humanity, mounting a robust defense for going full speed ahead. 

In an interview with CBS News two weeks ago, he said “2030 is not going to be the end of the world. There is 0% chance that’s going to be the end of the world.”

He said other AI leaders like Sam Altman of OpenAI and Dario Amodei of Anthropic were “irresponsible” for the “doomsday narratives” they have pushed in recent reports.

“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.”

At a G20 event earlier in September, Huang also argued that governments should be regulating “actual and pragmatic harm” instead of “hypothetical, theoretical harm.” He continued by comparing AI development to the evolution of cars—basically saying the tech can become safer as it........

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