The head of American technology giant Nvidia has rejected the idea that artificial intelligence (AI) technology will lead to the end of humanity in the next few years.
During an interview, Nvidia co-founder and chief executive Jensen Huang said former Anthropic researcher Jacob Kosen’s claims on social media that AI will wipe out humanity within a decade are irresponsible.
He said that 2030 will not be the year of the end of the world and there is a 0% chance that the world will end in 2030, it is unnecessary and irresponsible to scare people.
In an X (Twitter) post, Jacob Kosen said that ‘companies are competing to develop self-improving super-intelligence systems and playing with our lives’.
“Don’t underestimate the power of this technology, it can transform itself into powerful systems that will hack anything, revolutionize any sector overnight while gaining power and resources, we’re all seeing this progress and the pace of this progress is not slowing down,” said Jacob Kosson.
He said that people are developing AI systems with the belief that they will be capable of killing us all by the end of this decade.
US lawmakers have criticized AI companies over the risks, while Anthropic Chief Executive Dario Amode has called for an immediate slowdown in AI development, saying that if not, rogue AI agents could hijack the Internet in six to 12 months, causing trillions of dollars in losses.
OpenAI chief executive Sam Altman and Elon Musk have also called for slowing the pace of progress in the technology.
But US President Donald Trump dismissed the concerns about the progress in AI, calling it a conspiracy and rumour.
Jensen Huang emphasized that the predictions of the end of humanity from AI have not been confirmed by science.
He said that the success of our company is directly related to the safe production of products and services, if we do not do this, the value of our company will decrease.
