Nvidia CEO Jensen Huang stated in a CBS interview that 2030 will not be the end of the world, with a 0% probability of doomsday. He emphasized that scaring people is unnecessary and irresponsible.

He referred to the narrative of human extinction by the end of this decade as doomsday rhetoric, claiming it lacks scientific basis. The discussion was prompted by former Anthropic researcher Jacob Coxon's public statement about developers believing in potential extinction by the end of this decade, along with subsequent calls for a slowdown from Anthropic's Dario Amodei and OpenAI's Sam Altman.

Huang asserted that progress should be made as quickly as possible, independent of others, and that products should never be shipped if they are not ready or safe. When asked about vested interests, he stated that the company's success is directly related to safe deployment, and failure to achieve this would harm its market value. He interpreted some calls for a slowdown as attempts to offload existing legal responsibilities rather than to increase regulations, advocating for the use of existing liabilities related to cybersecurity breaches, product harm, and service level agreements.

Weeks ago, he had stated that if things felt out of control, they should pause or slow down. Recently, the U.S. President also referred to doomsday narratives as a scam. At the same time, paying users have sued several labs in San Francisco, alleging they negotiated for a slowdown. Nvidia supplies chips to almost all training clusters.

This narrative serves as a hedge. Buyers aim to frame existential risks as regulatory prerequisites for labs and Security Council agendas, while sellers want to label the probability as zero and keep responsibilities under existing product laws. Funding expectations are shifting from "slowing training" to accelerating orders for accelerators and power; beneficiaries include Nvidia and its customer clusters, while those under pressure are labs that have publicly stated their positions on slowing down and independent assessments. The zero probability targets extinction in 2030, not denying product harm.

Source: Public Information