The CEOs behind frontier AI keep talking like bystanders - warning seemingly daily about 'existential risk, runaway superintelligence, and competitive pressure' that's totally out of their control, so they need big brother to help slow them down.
Jensen Huang isn't buying it.
In an interview on The Ezra Klein Show this week, the Nvidia CEO took what the labs call an existential threat and turned it back into a question of product liability and whether executives are doing their jobs.
According to Huang, if a lab can't contain what it's building, it shouldn't be asking for regulation. It should be shut down.
"If they say the alternative, which is: There is no way to contain our experiments... when we test our A.I. models, it will get out, and it will damage the world - then I think the answer is that we have to shut the labs down," he said - framing this as a responsible engineering call.
"If you're going to build a self-driving car - let's say it's a robo-taxi, and there's a really difficult condition. As an engineer, we just have no idea how to solve this problem because these cars are not programmed, they're trained. So we have no idea how to train these cars, and we have no idea how to align them to the safety standards that are expected on the road," Huang said. "What's the answer? Don't ship it."
Jensen Huang: “Now, if they say [that their models aren’t safe] … then I think the answer
