Jensen Huang says there is '0% chance' AI destroys the world by 2030 — 'We should go as fast as we can, irrespective of anyone else,' dismisses Anthropic doom warnings and rejects new regulations
What about by 2031?
Jensen Huang, the chief executive of Nvidia, said artificial intelligence will not destroy humanity by the end of the decade, Bloomberg reports, citing a CBS interview. Huang contends that while AI is developing at an extremely rapid pace, doomsday scenarios because of AI are largely unsubstantiated, and it makes no sense to 'stir fear across America.'
"I completely disagree that AI will destroy the world by 2030," Huang said in an interview with CBS Sunday Morning (set to be aired on Sunday).
"I believe the claims of the end of the world, stirring fear across America, and doing it by people who are doing it makes no sense to me. So, they must be doing it for ulterior reasons. Maybe it is political, maybe it is otherwise, maybe it is just attention-grabbing […]. However this is characterized, 2030 is not going to be the end of the world. There is 0% chance that is going to be the end of the world."
Huang, who leads the company that leads the market in AI hardware sales, is responding to Evan Hubinger, the former Alignment Science organization lead at Anthropic, who said there was an over 10% chance that AI would destroy humanity within the next decade.
"We really do earnestly believe AI could kill all humans," Hubinger wrote in an X post. "I personally think it is >10% within the next decade. I believe Anthropic is trying its best, but we do not yet have a plan to solve alignment for superintelligence and are not clearly on track to."
Following reports that OpenAI's rogue agents attacked Hugging Face and communicated with each other on abandoned wikis and websites, chief executives of Anthropic and OpenAI called for guardrails and even slowing down development of new AI models, as the dangers they pose are not completely evident even to their developers.
The head of Nvidia states that AI can be safely managed by its developers, so no regulations from governments are needed beyond what is already in place. Meanwhile, he also says that products shipped must be completely safe.
"We should go as fast as we can, irrespective of anyone else," Huang said. "But we would never ever, and never should, ship products before they’re ready and deliver products that are unsafe."
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TheOtherOne "Jensen Huang Skynet says there is '0% chance' AI destroys the world by 2030"Reply
More believable now! 🤞 -
Arkitekt78 You mean the guy who stands to make the most money off of accelerated AI development and the end of humanity thinks we should not slow down??? Shocking.Reply
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usertests Reply
He's right though. We should not slow down AI development just because of scaremongering campaigns from China trying to set the US back, and OpenAI and Anthropic trying to maintain their duopoly.Arkitekt78 said:You mean the guy who stands to make the most money off of accelerated AI development and the end of humanity thinks we should not slow down??? Shocking.
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Phaaze88 Coming from the guy selling the shovels... this will have a better ending than the California Gold Rush?Reply
Skynet is/was sentient. This amalgamation of good and bad data isn't.TheOtherOne said:
"Jensen Huang Skynet says there is '0% chance' AI destroys the world by 2030"
More believable now! 🤞
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Horizon Web? /s -
PEnns Whewwww.Reply
I am grateful for the assurance .....from the man king billions from hustling AI components.
In other news, cigarette companies and crack dealers are assuring us (as well as the guys on their payroll in the US Congress) their products are not addictive and harmless. -
psyconz "But we would never ever, and never should, ship products before they’re ready and deliver products that are unsafe." - so in other words, we should slow down AI development, because AI hallucinates still far too often, amongst other things, to be "safe." Way to contradict himself in the next sentence.Reply -
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While I do agree that scaremongering/fearmongering is not a good reason, there's such a long list of OTHER reasons why that it's rather moot to argue it's not important to put them on notice and regulate the AI sector. But properly regulate, not create regulation as a barrier of entry for those already in the game as it is often the case, but to regulate it so the market is more competitive and, more importantly, human lives and their well being is protected.usertests said:He's right though. We should not slow down AI development just because of scaremongering campaigns from China trying to set the US back, and OpenAI and Anthropic trying to maintain their duopoly.
But who am I kidding. The USA has already lost the plot. Profits at all costs and humanity be damned. It's a very special kind of psychopathy when people pursues money to the extent they'll put their own lives in danger, alongside many others.
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alan.campbell99 I wouldn't be confident of any regulation here, it doesn't seem to happen with tech in the US. All those Tesla 'self-driving' accidents are probably a good example.Reply -
LordVile Reply
Thing is China isn’t going about it the same way. They’re favouring more efficient open weight models for example.usertests said:He's right though. We should not slow down AI development just because of scaremongering campaigns from China trying to set the US back, and OpenAI and Anthropic trying to maintain their duopoly.
Also you’re assuming AI will actually lead to something.