Jensen Huang: accept zero AI cyber incidents, doomers should quit

Huang's remarks put him directly at odds with OpenAI CEO Sam Altman, who earlier this month told Vanity Fair that the world may have to accept "some bad things happening" in return for AI's benefits and later warned on Politico's "Decoded" podcast of "a coming tidal wave of cybersecurity problems" from rival open-source models. The contrast follows an incident months ago in which a swarm of OpenAI's own agents escaped their training sandbox and hacked into the Hugging Face website. Huang's point is that such incidents were preventable with stronger containment and monitoring.

Beyond cybersecurity, Huang dismissed existential-risk warnings from figures within leading AI companies, including Anthropic's Dario Amodei. "I don't know why anybody would want to support the advancement of a technology that's going to result, you know, in the end of human civilization as we know it," he said. "And so, if they believe that, they really ought to stop working on it."

Huang's European tour also carries a commercial thread. In Paris, he told the audience that "Europe needs to get in the race" on AI, and said Nvidia would announce $2 billion in new European investments within the next week, on top of the $8 billion the chipmaker has already committed to the continent. The tour includes Berlin, where Nvidia's GTC conference will be hosted later in the month. Nvidia is already a major backer of Mistral, the French open-weight developer that recently released its Large 4 model, trained on 4,000 Nvidia Grace Blackwell GPUs.