Huang calls the AI labs' demand for new rules a bid to escape the existing ones
Nvidia's Jensen Huang told CBS News there is a 0% chance AI ends the world in 2030, and that the lab chiefs asking Washington for guardrails want relief from the liability law already on the books. The White House agrees with him.
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What happened
- Nvidia's Jensen Huang told CBS News on Friday that 2030 will not be the end of the world and that there is a 0% chance of it, in an interview with correspondent Jo Ling Kent.
- He said the AI leaders calling for government regulation are not actually asking for more laws but asking to be relieved of the laws that already exist.
- Last week Anthropic's Dario Amodei published an essay titled "We Must Pace the Frontier" setting out a three-pronged plan to keep AI under the control of human engineers.
Why it matters
- Who has to decide decision A company drafting its AI policy this quarter has to pick between the position of the firm that sells the compute and the position of the firms that buy it, and defend the choice to a board that will ask which one it followed.
- Who's exposed exposure Huang tied Nvidia's own valuation to safe deployment, so every customer incident involving models running on its hardware now tests a standard its chief executive set himself.
- What it sets up precedent Self-halting has become the administration's first answer to any request for federal guardrails, and a lab that keeps shipping while warning of catastrophe will be asked why it did not take that option.
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Huang's claim is a legal one: American laws on product liability and unauthorized entry already cover the harms in question [5]. That is the part of this a company can act on, and it is narrower than extinction. "We don't need more regulations," he said. "We need to apply the current regulations we have" [7]. He pointed to cyber exposure in particular: "You have all kinds of liabilities associated with cybersecurity" [6]. If that reading is right, the controls a buyer has before any new statute exists are the ones it can negotiate: indemnities, and the cyber cover it already pays for.
Leading AI chief executives said last week that development should be slowed until adequate risk-prevention measures are in place [14]. Anthropic's Dario Amodei set out three prongs in an essay titled "We Must Pace the Frontier," one of which asked the US government to regulate frontier labs "for antitrust reasons" [15][16]. Altman and Musk amplified it [17]. Huang described the request differently. "They're actually not asking for more laws. They're asking to be relieved of the laws we do have," he said [12]. He also said the lab chiefs "must be doing it for ulterior reasons," and that he did not know what those reasons are [13].
A skeptic's version of Huang's position is short: the company selling the hardware does not want a speed limit. CBS asked him why Americans should trust him on safety given Nvidia's incentives [10]. "Our company's success is directly connected to the safe deployment of products and services," he said. "If we don't continue to do that, our value would be diminished" [10]. That is a claim about aligned interest, not evidence about how the models behave. The same test cuts the other way, because federal supervision of frontier developers would bind the competitors of the labs requesting it [16].
The dividing line follows the supply chain. Nvidia's chips power the large language models that OpenAI and others build, and demand for them has made the company the world's most valuable at $5.3 trillion [9][8]. Nvidia, which sells the compute, says the existing rules suffice, and several of the buyers are asking to be constrained [23].
Federal policy currently sits on Huang's side. On Saturday, Trump wrote on Truth Social: "We will not in any way hinder or stifle the Growth of this incredible Industry" [18]. Michael Kratsios, who directs the White House Office of Science and Technology Policy, told Fox News on Sunday that the labs could "just stop" if they think their products are dangerous [19]. Huang repeated his argument that a slowdown among US labs would cede ground to China [21].
Huang said the predictions are "not grounded in science" [4], and the document on the other side is a proposal for safeguards [15]. The two accounts differ on one detail: Business Insider identifies Amodei as Anthropic's chief executive [15], CBS as the company's former chief executive [24]. A policy paper that cites the industry position now has to say which chief executive it means.
What to watch
- Whether Kratsios's "just stop" answer becomes a written federal position or stays an interview line.
- Whether any frontier lab pairs its slowdown call with commitments a customer could enforce in a contract.
- What comes of Huang's stated intent to discuss global AI standards with Xi Jinping at the Sept. 24 White House dinner.
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Nvidia co-founder and CEO Jensen Huang told CBS News he disagrees with recent warnings from artificial intelligence researchers that the technology could lead to humanity's extinction within a few years, calling such statements overblown "doomsday narratives."
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"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 senior business and technology correspondent Jo Ling Kent on Friday.
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"Scaring people is unnecessary. It is irresponsible," Huang told CBS News.
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Huang said he rejects such predictions because they are "not grounded in science."
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Huang dismissed the need for new regulations, saying that existing U.S. laws governing product liability and unauthorized entry are sufficient.
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"You have all kinds of liabilities associated with cybersecurity" and damage liability laws, Huang said, adding that these should be applied first.
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"We don't need more regulations," Huang said. "We need to apply the current regulations we have."
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Demand for Nvidia's chips has boosted its market value to $5.3 trillion, making it the world's most valuable company.
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Nvidia's specialized chips power the large language models by which AI agents, created by OpenAI and others, access and synthesize information.
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Asked why Americans should trust him on AI safety given his company's incentives, Huang said: "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."
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Nvidia's CEO made the comments in an interview with CBS News aired on Sunday, accusing the leaders of the frontier AI labs of being disingenuous in their warnings that the products they are building could harm humanity.
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"Go and read between the lines," Huang said of AI leaders calling for government regulation. "They're actually not asking for more laws. They're asking to be relieved of the laws we do have."
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"They must be doing it for ulterior reasons," Huang added; he said he did not know exactly what those ulterior reasons are.
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Last week, a chorus of leading AI CEOs said AI development should be slowed down until adequate risk-prevention measures could be put in place.
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In an essay titled "We Must Pace the Frontier," Anthropic CEO Dario Amodei proposed a three-pronged plan that would, in his view, strengthen safeguards to ensure AI remains under the control of human engineers.
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One prong of Amodei's plan called for the US government, "for antitrust reasons," to regulate frontier AI labs.
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Amodei's essay was signal-boosted by OpenAI CEO Sam Altman and SpaceX CEO Elon Musk.
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President Donald Trump said on Saturday that new regulations aren't needed to ensure AI remains safe: "We will not in any way hinder or stifle the Growth of this incredible Industry," he said on Truth Social.
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Michael Kratsios, director of the White House Office of Science and Technology Policy, rejected the idea that tech companies need government intervention to ensure the safety of their AI models, and in a Fox News interview on Sunday said the AI labs could "just stop" if they think their products are dangerous.
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Huang has emerged as a prominent anti-regulation voice, together with Trump and David Sacks, a presidential advisor on science and tech.
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In the CBS interview, Huang reiterated previous concerns that a slowdown among US labs would cede ground to China in the global AI race, and that AI labs don't need government help to implement a slowdown.
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Huang, who will attend a White House dinner on Sept. 24 where Trump will host Chinese President Xi Jinping, said he wants to speak with Xi about setting global standards for AI development.
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The disagreement divides the compute supply chain: the vendor whose chips power the labs' models says existing law is sufficient, while frontier lab chief executives who buy that compute are asking for development to be slowed and for the government to regulate them.
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CBS News described Dario Amodei as the former Anthropic CEO, and said Huang was responding to claims on social media by Amodei, OpenAI CEO Sam Altman and other leading industry figures.
Sources
3 independent publishers whose own reporting we read for this story.
- businessinsider.comNvidia's Jensen Huang says AI CEOs have 'ulterior reasons' for warning about doomsday
2 articles · September 23, 2026
- cbsnews.comNvidia's Jensen Huang rejects AI extinction warnings as "doomsday narratives" - CBS News
1 article · September 20, 2026
- theguardian.comNvidia boss says there is ‘0% chance’ AI destroys the world by 2030
1 article · September 21, 2026