Jensen Huang · Meta · Nvidia · Donald Trump · The Verge
Jensen Huang talks about AI and climate change like a supervillain
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With AI, he says, ‘to save you, they’ve got to hurt you first.‘.
Key facts
- The Nvidia CEO discussed the future of energy and AI’s impact on their planet in the latest episode of The Ezra Klein Show
- But Huang, with a net worth of around $192.6 billion, will not pay the price of the pollution his company creates through energy-hungry chip factories and data centers
- As Jensen Huang puts it, AI can help fight climate change, but only if it inflicts “an enormous amount of pain and suffering” first
- But his comments boil down to the same accelerationist spin they've seen from a variety of tech leaders as well as President Donald Trump
Summary
As Jensen Huang puts it, AI can help fight climate change, but only if it inflicts “an enormous amount of pain and suffering” first. The Nvidia CEO discussed the future of energy and AI’s impact on their planet in the latest episode of The Ezra Klein Show. Huang’s extreme level of privilege is glaring in the interview. But Huang, with a net worth of around $192.6 billion, will not pay the price of the pollution his company creates through energy-hungry chip factories and data centers. Huang tells Klein, after complaining that the US hasn’t built out enough fossil fuel plants, that:.