Jensen Huang has President Trump’s ear. What might he be telling him about AI?
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What does the 2024 AI researcher survey reveal about extinction risks?
It's consider this where every day we go deep on one big news story. Today, the relentless AI optimism of one of President Trump's trusted advisors. As a group, artificial intelligence experts, they're pretty decidedly gloomy about their work. Results from a 2024 survey of nearly 1,600 AI researchers came out this month. It found that roughly half thought there was at least a 10% chance that AI advances would cause, quote, human extinction or similarly permanent and severe disempowerment of the species. Compare that to this forecast from Jensen Huang.
2030 is not going to be the end of the world. There is 0% chance that's going to be the end of the world.
That's from a CBS Sunday morning interview last week. Huang is the CEO of NVIDIA, whose computer chips powered the advanced models of companies like OpenAI and Anthropic. This month, the leaders of those companies have called for a slowdown in frontier AI research and for regulation. Huang is a vocal opponent of regulation, and he says we slow AI research at our own peril. Here he is again on CBS News.
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Consider this Jensen Wong wants the US to go full speed ahead on AI research, and he's got the ear of President Trump. From NPR, I'm Juana Summers.
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Mm-hmm. It's consider this from NPR. Jensen Wong has clout in the AI industry. His company is massive, and the AI labs couldn't exist without it. But he also has clout with the White House. We wanted to unpack how he built that influence and how he's exercising it. So I spoke with Stephen Witt, whose biography, The Thinking Machine, charts the extraordinary rise of Wong and Nvidia. So, Steven, when President Trump says that the idea of AI taking over the world or destroying humanity is a hoax, that we don't need guardrails and that AI will instead be the greatest economic development engine in history, how similar is that to Jensen Huang's view?
Those are exactly Jensen's talking points. Jensen is now the president's most influential advisor on technology issues. The two have become quite close. They call each other on the phone all the time. Jensen even caught a ride on Air Force One to China. So this is really uh the president is really listening to Jensen on this.
Do you have a sense of how it happened that they got so close? I mean, I just I remember seeing a clip of Huang taking a call from President Trump on stage during a live event earlier this month.
Yeah, I think that was a little bit of a kind of stage managed, but it but it did happen. Um Trump wants to be close to Jensen because Jensen is a winner. Uh NVIDIA, Jensen's company, is the most valuable corporation in American history, even when you adjust for inflation. It is the biggest. Uh Jensen, I think, wants to be near Trump because Trump has so much to offer him. When I interviewed Jensen years ago, he told me that uh every problem in the world is actually an engineering problem. Now that's true if it's a personal problem, a business problem, or a political problem.
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