Jensen Huang: AI CEOs Have 'Ulterior Reasons' in Doomsday ...

There is a specific joy in watching one billionaire call other billionaires liars, and Jensen Huang just did it on CBS. Asked about the AI chiefs who keep solemnly warning of doomsday while politely requesting regulation, Huang said they have "ulterior reasons." Then he landed the actual punchline: "They're actually not asking for more laws. They're asking to be relieved of the laws we do have." Coming from the man whose company sells the shovels to every digger in the gold rush, it is the most honest sentence anyone has said about AI this quarter — and he did not appear to notice he was also describing himself.

Huang's alternative to all that posturing is a small-government haiku: "We don't need more regulations. We need to apply the current regulations we have." A lovely sentiment, provided you have never read what the current regulations say, or clocked that applying them requires an agency with a budget and a spine — two items conspicuously absent from every recent appropriations cycle. Business Insider files him alongside Trump and David Sacks as a prominent anti-regulation voice, which makes for a marvellous trio: three men with an unblemished record of never having met a rule they liked, and not one of them in the business of restraint.

And credit where it's due: he is not wrong about the motive. The labs that opened the national conversation about tapping the brakes have spent two years discovering that safety announcements test beautifully with enterprise procurement teams and legislators who want a photo. Huang's version of the same move is simply louder: he is not asking for a moratorium, he is asking for the lights to stay green and for somebody else to be blamed for the pile-up. When the man selling the accelerators says the brakes are fine, believe him. Then check who owns the road.