Nvidia CEO to Washington: Don't fall for 'science fiction' AI fear - Axios

Ah, the soothing sound of a man whose fortune depends on you not panicking. Nvidia CEO Jensen Huang has strolled into Washington to inform the Trump administration that worrying about AI ending humanity is 'complete nonsense' — a 'science fiction' distraction from the serious business of, presumably, buying more Nvidia chips. Because nothing says disinterested expert testimony quite like the world's most valuable hardware vendor telling policymakers to chill out and let the machines rip.

Huang, whose company's latest GPU racks cost more than a house and consume electricity like a small country, assured everyone that the 'existential risk' crowd is just peddling bedtime stories. This is the same Jensen Huang who recently warned that AI would soon be '100 times smarter' than humans — but apparently that's only a problem if you're a pessimist. The man has a remarkable talent for making the word 'nonsense' do the heavy lifting for a multibillion-dollar narrative shift.

So by all means, Washington, let's base policy on the assurances of the guy selling shovels in the gold rush. After all, what could possibly go wrong when the largest beneficiary of unregulated AI expansion gets to define the terms of debate? Surely the 'science fiction' label will hold up when the first autonomous system decides its utility function doesn't include us. But hey, at least we'll have great frame rates in the apocalypse.