Nvidia’s Jensen Huang: ‘0% Chance’ of Humanity Ending by 2030, AI Doomers Are ‘Irresponsible’
Nvidia co-founder and CEO Jensen Huang rejected warnings that AI could wipe out humanity within years, calling such predictions unscientific and irresponsible in an interview with CBS News.
In an interview with CBS News, Huang pushed back on warnings of AI doom that have circulated widely in recent weeks. “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. He called the AI doomsday framing harmful, adding, “Scaring people is unnecessary. It is irresponsible.”
Huang was responding to comments made earlier this month by Jacob Coxon, a former researcher at Anthropic, who wrote on social media that AI developers “earnestly believe that it could kill us all by the end of the decade.” Coxon’s remarks set off a broader public debate over AI risk, one that has drawn in Anthropic CEO Dario Amodei, OpenAI CEO Sam Altman and other industry leaders who have called for slowing AI development. Huang dismissed the extinction scenario as “not grounded in science.”
Asked why the public should trust his assurances given Nvidia’s financial stake in AI’s growth, Huang said, “Our company’s success is directly connected to the safe deployment of products and services.” He added, “If we don’t continue to do that, our value would be diminished.” Nvidia’s chips power the large language models behind AI agents from OpenAI and other companies. The company’s market value stands at $5.3 trillion, the highest of any company in the world.
Huang argued that existing law, not new AI-specific rules, already covers much of the risk. “You have all kinds of liabilities associated with cybersecurity,” he said. “Apply that first, don’t let this doomsday narrative allow someone to relieve them of the laws that currently exist.” That position lines up with President Trump’s, who has said the AI industry does not need additional guardrails. (Read more from “Nvidia’s Jensen Huang: ‘0% Chance’ of Humanity Ending by 2030, AI Doomers Are ‘Irresponsible’” HERE)
