Nvidia CEO Jensen Huang said there is a “0% chance” that artificial intelligence will end the world by 2030, rejecting recent warnings of human extinction from the technology as “doomsday narratives” that are “not grounded in science,” according to a CBS News interview that aired Sunday on “CBS Sunday Morning.”
“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,”
Huang told CBS News senior business and technology correspondent Jo Ling Kent in the interview, which was conducted Friday.
“Scaring people is unnecessary. It is irresponsible,”
Huang said, according to the broadcast.
Huang, 63, was born Jen-Hsun Huang on Feb. 17, 1963, in Taipei, according to his Wikipedia biography. He co-founded Nvidia in 1993 with colleagues Chris Malachowsky and Curtis Priem and has led the Santa Clara, California-based company as president and CEO ever since.
Nvidia became the first company to surpass $5 trillion in market capitalization in 2025, largely driven by AI demand for the specialized chips that supply most advanced AI systems. The interview follows Nvidia’s separate AI work using athletes’ movements to train robotics systems.
Huang also pushed back against calls to slow the pace of AI development.
“We should go as fast as we can irrespective of anybody else,”
Huang said.
“We’re going to go as fast as we can, but we would never ever, and never should, ship products before they’re ready, deliver products that are unsafe.”
He argued that Nvidia’s success depends on the safe deployment of AI products and services.
“Our company’s success is directly connected to the safe deployment of products and services,”
Huang said.
“If we don’t continue to do that, our value would be diminished.”
Huang’s comments came days after former Anthropic researcher Jacob Coxon publicly resigned and warned that AI developers “earnestly believe that it could kill us all by the end of the decade.” Coxon, 27, spent the past three years working on AI pretraining research at both OpenAI and Anthropic before stepping down in early September. In a widely viewed series of posts on X, Coxon accused leading AI firms of “racing straight to self-improving superintelligence and gambling with our lives.”
Coxon’s departure helped fuel broader discussion. Anthropic CEO Dario Amodei published an essay on September 12 titled “We Must Pace the Frontier”, arguing the industry should deliberately slow the rate of capability advances so safety work could keep up.
OpenAI CEO Sam Altman and others publicly expressed agreement with the need for greater caution. Hypefresh previously covered Altman earlier calling for an AI pause amid a separate viral moment, and has tracked OpenAI’s separate dispute with DeepSeek over alleged model distillation.
In the same CBS interview, Huang said existing U.S. laws on product liability and cybersecurity are sufficient and that he sees no need for additional AI-specific rules.
He also reiterated support for rapid American progress in the technology, including competition with China. An area where the U.S. has previously restricted Nvidia’s H20 chip sales to Chinese customers. Huang stressed that companies must not release systems before they are ready.
The exchange underscores a clear split inside the industry. Some executives and researchers at frontier labs emphasize existential risks and the need to slow capability growth.
Huang, whose company supplies the hardware that enables those labs, argues the risks are overstated and that the priority should remain full-speed development paired with rigorous safety practices.
Born in Taipei, Huang moved to the United States as a child, where his aunt and uncle enrolled him and his brother at the Oneida Baptist Institute, a religious reform academy in Kentucky for troubled youth. He later transferred to a public school in Oregon, where he graduated. He went on to earn an electrical engineering degree from Oregon State University and a master’s from Stanford. His cousin, AMD CEO Lisa Su, leads one of Nvidia’s primary competitors in the AI-chip market.
Internet aggregator account Pubity (@pubity) circulated a paraphrase of Huang’s CBS interview the morning it aired, drawing more than 100 likes within hours.
