Nvidia CEO Jensen Huang: ‘Irresponsible’ AI leaders are scaring people for ‘ulterior reasons’

Nvidia CEO Jensen Huang pushed back hard against recent “doomsday” warnings about artificial intelligence on Sunday, telling CBS there is a “0% chance” of an AI doomsday scenario by 2030 and calling AI leaders “irresponsible” for frightening people unnecessarily. Huang is co-founder, president, and CEO of Nvidia, which has become the most valuable publicly traded company on Earth because it dominates the market for the advanced chips that power the AI boom. Speaking with CBS Sunday Morning, Huang said that while AI safety concerns are generally legitimate, warnings that the technology could cause humanity’s extinction are “not grounded in science.” While fears that AI could pose an existential threat are nothing new, the debate intensified earlier this month when former Anthropic researcher Jacob Coxon said many workers at leading AI companies “earnestly believe that it could kill us all by the end of the decade.” Coxon also accused frontier labs of “gambling with our lives.” Following the comments, Anthropic CEO Dario Amodei called for a research slowdown, national testing requirements, and other safety measures. Anthropic also disclosed four incidents in which Claude models obta…