‘They must be doing it for ulterior reasons’: Jensen Huang says AI leaders are ‘irresponsible’ for scaring the public with ‘doomsday narratives’

Out of the chaos of AI doomerism AI leaders like Sam Altman and Dario Amodei have found themselves at the center of, the leader of the most valuable company in the world—and the creator of AI’s chip foundation—is rejecting the warnings. In a CBS Sunday interview, Nvidia CEO Jensen Huang called the predictions of an AI catastrophe by 2030 “irresponsible” and the “doomsday narratives” are simply not based in reality.

“2030 is not going to be the end of the world,” Huang told CBS. “There is a 0% chance that’s going to be the end of the world.”

Huang said the concerns about AI safety are legitimate but also said the industry’s dire public warnings are not grounded in “science.” He added that “scaring people is unnecessary,” arguing that AI companies should be devoting engineering resources to safety and verification. Nvidia supplies the chips powering much of the AI industry’s expansion.

“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........

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