People

Jensen Huang

Nvidia

Capability 5Outlook 5

Tracked since Week 36, last spoke Oct 7.

Where they stand

Against all 17 people scored in Week 40. Bars count people at each score; black is Huang, the dashed line is the average.

What they've said

• Wednesday, Oct 7Week 41

  At Microsoft's Windows event, Huang said What happens in the era of agents, when the agent is on your computer? It is now your personal assistant.

  Huang joined Satya Nadella for a fireside chat in San Francisco launching RTX Spark Windows PCs built to run AI agents locally. He said We've reinvented the personal computer completely. Nothing he said addressed safety or risk.

  Details and sources

  NVIDIA Blog, Engadget
• Week 40Sept 28 to Oct 4

  Signed the accord: There's no conflict between innovation, technology and safety.

  Huang signed and told reporters, per CBS, There's no conflict between innovation, technology and safety. It fits his usual line and he said nothing new on risk. Scores hold at 5 and 5.

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  • Trump touts AI executives' accord as a "constitution" for the industryCBS News, Sept 29
• Week 39Sept 21 to Sept 27

  Called recursive self-improvement "a fabulous thing" and denied existential risk, then described the conditions under which the labs should shut down.

  The loudest week on the roster, and the scores did not budge, because his rhetoric hardened while his position softened. On the Ezra Klein show he called recursive self-improvement a fabulous thing, located the inflection point of AI in the last six months, and confirmed flatly that he does not believe in AI existential risk. That is a 5 and a 5.

  But he also conceded a condition: if they say the alternative, which is: There is no way to contain our experiments, there's just no way; when we test our A.I. models, it will get out, and it will damage the world, then I think the answer is that we have to shut the labs down. He endorsed third-party safety auditors and said if the labs need an antitrust vote to pace themselves, I'll give them my vote. Don't ship the product. The doom sceptic spent the week describing the circumstances under which he would close the industry.

  The Ezra Klein Show, September 23, quotes via secondary coverage; the NYT transcript was not reachable. Two widely circulated Huang quotes were dropped this week as unverifiable, see notes.

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  • Jensen Huang tells Ezra Klein AI labs that lack control should not shipThe Next Web, Sept 23
  • On Ezra Klein's podcast with Jensen HuangDon't Worry About the Vase