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Nvidia CEO Jensen Huang emerges as Trump's top ally in AI safety debate
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With the debate about regulating artificial intelligence raging in Washington this week, President Donald Trump picked up the phone to call his top ally on the subject: Nvidia CEO Jensen Huang.
Key facts
- While other tech leaders like Meta CEO Mark Zuckerberg and Amazon founder Jeff Bezos have cozied up to Trump during his second term, experts told CNBC that Huang is exercising outsized influence
- Amodei's "pacing" proposal was endorsed by other industry leaders, including OpenAI CEO Sam Altman, SpaceX CEO Elon Musk and Google DeepMind Chair Demis Hassabis, who agreed on the need
- The White House is also planning a meeting with major AI executives to coincide with the event, according to CNN
- WATCH: Nvidia CEO Jensen Huang says safety is an engineering problem
Summary
"The robots are not going to be taking over the world," Trump told Huang, who'd put the president on speaker while on stage at the All-In Summit in Los Angeles on Monday. While other tech leaders like Meta CEO Mark Zuckerberg and Amazon founder Jeff Bezos have cozied up to Trump during his second term, experts told CNBC that Huang is exercising outsized influence in the White House. Nvidia has been powering the AI boom since before the launch of ChatGPT in late 2022, supplying the graphics processing units used by OpenAI, Anthropic and others to train their models and run large workloads.