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Nvidia boss confirms there is ‘0% chance’ AI destroys the world by 2030
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The boss of the chipmaker Nvidia has said AI will not develop to a point that will lead to the extinction of the human race within a few years, rejecting such assertions as overblown “doomsday narratives”.
Key facts
- Jensen Huang, the co-founder and chief executive of the $5tn AI chipmaker, said the claims made on social media by the former Anthropic researcher Jacob Coxon that AI could become “superhuman
- On Sunday, Scott Bessent, the US Treasury secretary, said the US and China had agreed to set up an AI dialogue mechanism to alert each other to help contain the technology’s potential dangers
- On Monday the the Tony Blair Institute (TBI) thinktank published a paper arguing that countries risk “profound and compounding disadvantage” if they fail to embrace AI and fall behind other nations
- There is 0% chance that’s going to be the end of the world,” Huang said News
Summary
Jensen Huang, the co-founder and chief executive of the $5tn AI chipmaker, said the claims made on social media by the former Anthropic researcher Jacob Coxon that AI could become “superhuman” and kill off humanity within the decade were “irresponsible”. “2030 is not going to be the end of the world. Coxon’s remarks, which were backed by two other researchers at the maker of the AI system Claude, prompted an international debate about the dangers and lack of oversight of AI as companies race to develop ever more powerful models.