Nvidia’s Jensen Huang says he would cut off customers who build unsafe AI
Jensen Huang told Bloomberg in London he would halt chip supply to a customer building unsafe AI, while saying the current level of concern is not warranted. His prescription is to accelerate containment and monitoring technology, which Nvidia is building a team to sell.
Nvidia’s chief executive says he would stop supplying a customer building unsafe AI. He said it as a hypothetical, then set out the limits.
“It’s a hypothetical, but yes,” Jensen Huang told Bloomberg in London. He would talk to the customer first, he added, because Nvidia does not run other people’s companies and its technology is general-purpose.
The judgement already exists in another form. Nvidia built an approved-buyer list across Singapore, Malaysia and Japan last year, and tighter vetting left more than half its previous customers in the region no longer cleared to buy.
He does not think the worry is warranted. The fears...
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