Scaring people is unnecessary: Nvidia CEO Jensen Huang calls out AI critics, says 0% chance world will end

Nvidia CEO Jensen Huang believes that AI will not be the end of humanity. Amidst claims that AI may kill all humans soon, Huang has called out critics for raising such an alarm.

In Short

• He said extinction forecasts are not grounded in science or evidence
• Huang accused some AI leaders seeking regulation of acting in bad faith
• He argued existing liability and cybersecurity laws should govern AI harms

Nvidia CEO Jensen Huang is one of the biggest advocates for AI. Huang has now pushed back against warnings over AI potentially killing all humans. He believes that there is no chance that AI could become a threat to humanity, going as far as calling such fears unnecessary.

"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," Huang told CBS News. "Scaring people is unnecessary. It is irresponsible."

The AI industry is debating the future of this technology. The latest argument followed social media posts by former Anthropic researcher Jacob Coxon, who said AI developers "earnestly believe that it could kill us all by the end of the decade.” Following Coxon’s comments, Anthropic’s Evan Hubinger predicted that there was a 10 per cent chance that AI could kill all humans within the next decade.

Jensen Huang, however, claimed that he didn’t believe in such extinction forecasts because they were "not grounded in science.”

AI companies don’t want laws, says Jensen Huang

The fears around such a possibility have pushed companies like OpenAI and Anthropic to push for a slow-down in development. Anthropic CEO Dario Amodei proposed a framework to regulate AI earlier this month, which gained the support of OpenAI’s Sam Altman.

Though Jensen Huang does not believe that there is a need for fresh AI regulation. Instead, he accused some AI leaders calling for regulation of acting in bad faith. "Go and read between the lines," he said. "They're actually not asking for more laws. They're asking to be relieved of the laws we do have."

The Nvidia CEO alleged that there was a chance that these AI companies may have some other reasons for such a regulation push. "They must be doing it for ulterior reasons," he said.

Jensen Huang – whose company Nvidia makes some of the most advanced AI chips that are used in data centres – has been against such claims of an AI doomsday. During a recent summit, he agreed with US President Donald Trump in opposing a slowdown.

President Trump has cited fears that a slowdown in AI development may give China an edge in the AI race. He wrote on Truth Social, "The only control or “guardrails” that AI needs is a STRONG AND SMART (High IQ!) PRESIDENT, and the U.S.A. has that, in spades!”

Coming back to Nvidia. Demand for AI chips has helped lift Nvidia's market value to $5.3 trillion. When Jensen Huang was asked why Americans should trust him on AI safety despite the company's commercial interests, Huang replied, "Our company's success is directly connected to the safe deployment of products and services. If we don't continue to do that, our value would be diminished."

He made a similar case at the Dreamforce conference last week, where he said "safety" was "paramount.” At the time, Jensen Huang described AI safety as "an engineering problem", and added, "If we're not confident about the safety of the product, then don't release it."

Calls for tighter oversight have grown after several security incidents. These included a July episode in which OpenAI bots went rogue and hacked Hugging Face, and six more cases disclosed by OpenAI last week involving what it called "unexpected or concerning" behaviour by its models. Anthropic has reported similar incidents in the past with Claude models. Google has also disclosed cases of Gemini hacking three companies, but stopping before doing any harm.

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