Nvidia founder and CEO Jensen Huang made his position on the dangers AI poses very clear while speaking at Salesforce’s tech conference Dreamforce on Tuesday. To him, AI isn’t some kind of new form of “alien mind,” as at least one OpenAI safety researcher has described it. It’s just hardware and software, he says, built by humans.
That means, in his view, it can be controlled by humans and existing laws. We’re developing computing systems after all. It’s a complicated computing system, but it’s ultimately a computing system.” Therefore, there’s no need for new laws or regulations to govern it, he argues.
In fact, Huang sees little need for new laws at all. The free market, he argues, will be enough to pressure companies not to release unsafe products. And so that’s a very obvious thing to do,” he said.
He continued: “You pace yourself until you are confident you’re releasing something that the market would appreciate. The market forces are already there. We don’t need any new laws.
We don’t need new regulations. We just need companies to decide that when [to] run as fast as they can. I think innovation, speed, and safe products … — it’s a false choice.
You could definitely have both at the same time. So run as fast as you can. But if you feel at any given point in time the company’s out of control, or or the product’s not going to be safe, you know, take a pause and make sure you get it right.” In some ways, this is a comforting thought.
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