Nvidia CEO Jensen Huang with students at Stanford in April 2026. Image: Anderseidesvik / Wikimedia Commons, CC BY-SA 4.0
Nvidia CEO Jensen Huang has a message for the AI researchers warning that the technology could wipe out humanity within a few years: calm down. In an interview with CBS News, the head of the world’s most valuable company dismissed those warnings as “doomsday narratives” that are “not grounded in science.”
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.
Jensen Huang, Nvidia CEO
“Scaring people is unnecessary”
Huang was responding to a wave of alarm set off by former Anthropic researcher Jacob Coxon, who warned that the people building AI “earnestly believe that it could kill us all by the end of the decade,” CBS News reports. That prompted Anthropic CEO Dario Amodei, OpenAI CEO Sam Altman and others to call for AI development to slow down.
Huang isn’t buying it. “Scaring people is unnecessary. It is irresponsible,” he told CBS’s Jo Ling Kent on Sunday Morning.
He also argued that safety is already built into Nvidia’s incentives: “Our company’s success is directly connected to the safe deployment of products and services.”
A shot at the “slow down” crowd
Huang went further, suggesting that AI companies calling for a slowdown might have ulterior motives, namely protecting themselves from liability for harm their products cause.
They’re actually not asking for more laws. They’re asking to be relieved of the laws we do have.
Jensen Huang
Rather than new AI-specific rules, Huang said existing product liability and cybersecurity laws are enough to hold the industry to account.
Why his view matters
It’s not hard to see where Huang is coming from. Nvidia’s chips power nearly every major AI model, it’s worth around $5.3 trillion, and a slowdown in AI development would hit it directly. Huang is personally worth about $182 billion, making him the world’s eighth-richest person, according to CBS.
His stance also lines up neatly with President Trump’s, who opposes slowing AI down on the grounds that it would hand an advantage to China. Huang is expected to attend the state dinner for Chinese leader Xi Jinping in Washington this week, where he reportedly plans to discuss global AI standards, Fox Business reports.
The split is now out in the open. On one side are the people who build AI models, several of whom are publicly warning about its risks. On the other is the man who sells them the chips, telling everyone there’s nothing to fear.
Sources: CBS News, Fox Business
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