ALBAWABA - Nvidia CEO Jensen Huang rejected the AI industry’s growing calls for a slowdown in AI development due to fears that it would cause the end of the world if developed uncontrollably.
Huang added that the fears 'make no sense' and may be driven by 'ulterior reasons', saying there’s a zero percent chance that AI will bring about the end of the world by 2030.
“However it’s characterized, 2030 is not going to be the end of the world,” Huang said in an interview with CBS News.
On the question of whether slowing down will cripple the U.S. in the AI race against China, Huang insisted “We should go as fast as we can, irrespective of anybody else,”
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He rejected people’s worries regarding AI as valid but that slowing down development was not the right call, instead the focus should be on safety along with speed, Huang said:
“We would never, ever, and never should ship products before they’re ready, deliver products that are unsafe, and nobody’s expecting us to do that,
“But everybody’s expecting us to succeed and help America be as prosperous as possible.”
“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.”
“Maybe it's political, maybe it's otherwise, maybe just attention grabbing,” he added.
The comments polarized Huang against other tech CEOs such as Anthropic CEO Dario Amodei, OpenAI CEO Sam Altman, and xAI founder Elon Musk who called for a slowdown.
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