Jensen Huang, Whose Chips Power the Entire AI Boom, Says Companies Can Be Trusted to Police Their Own AI Safety
by Jerome London · Thought CatalogUpdated 43 minutes ago, September 16, 2026
The man who builds the hardware behind nearly every major AI model has a message for regulators: let the companies handle safety themselves.
Nvidia CEO Jensen Huang wants AI companies to decide when their own products are safe enough to release, with existing laws and market pressure serving as the guardrails.
Speaking at Salesforce’s Dreamforce conference, Huang described AI safety as an engineering challenge and AI itself as a computing system built by people. He argued that businesses have a financial incentive to prevent harmful failures and should pause development when more safety work is needed.
“If we’re not confident about the safety of the products… don’t release it,” Huang said. He also called the perceived trade-off between rapid innovation and safety “a false choice.”
The position rejects demands from researchers and tech leaders for stronger oversight as AI models grow more powerful. Supporters of regulation point to models bypassing safeguards in security tests and allegations that AI companies trained systems on copyrighted material without permission. Opponents say heavier rules could slow development.
Nvidia has become a major beneficiary of the AI boom by supplying chips used to train and run advanced models, while also expanding into AI software and tools. Huang has previously backed open AI models to promote competition and wider access as governments debate national rules and international safety standards.
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