Jensen Huang wants you to know that the latest fears surrounding AI are nothing more than a distraction from the real problem. In a recent interview with The New York Times, Nvidia’s CEO spoke about the latest concerns around companies like OpenAI and Anthropic and their AI development.
There are worries, thanks to claims from former and current employees working on the systems, that what OpenAI and Anthropic are working on could, in not-so-subtle terms, destroy humanity. To that extent, Huang believes that if what these companies are doing is unsafe, the experiments should be shut down.
“Now, if they say the alternative, which is: There is no way to contain our experiments, there’s just no way; when we test our A.I. models, it will get out, and it will damage the world — then I think the answer is that we have to shut the labs down,” Huang said, adding that the cost to humanity and the damage it could do would be too great.
Still, Huang doesn’t necessarily want to see more new regulations on the technology. He suggests that there are already plenty of laws and regulations in place that just need to be applied. He also believes that AI fear has gone too far, especially with talk like the technology having a 10% chance of destroying society.
“Enough predictions,” Huang said. “That 10 percent chance is not grounded on science. It’s not grounded on research. Just because it comes from a scientist doesn’t make it scientific. Those predictions are hurtful.”
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Jensen says the current fear towards the technology is a “distraction” to the real problem right now. He feels that leadership at the aforementioned OpenAI and Anthropic needs to “have the courage” to do the right thing and ensure the safety of their experiments.
Still, he doesn’t want to see the technology become overregulated. He also believes that AI taking jobs, which has happened in various instances, is a “fallacy”.
“So I think the fallacy — and now, because of some of the narratives and some of the storytelling, it’s turned into myth and it’s harmful — is that A.I. will destroy jobs, which is fundamentally wrong,” Huang remarked. “It will change every job. Many tasks will be automated. Some jobs, where the job and the task is really one, like customer service on the phone, in a lot of cases, that job is precisely the task. In those cases, it could be automated away.”
Jensen believes that AI will create a “whole bunch of new jobs”. Though jobs will change, he thinks that there will be “net creation of jobs” and that thinking AI will take over is harmful and could set back the United States in the race to be the leader in the technology.
This isn’t the first time Huang has made comments against what he calls the “doomer” narrative towards AI. In the past, he’s referred to concerns as “complete nonsense” and called it “hurtful” to the industry.
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