Jensen Huang: Use AI to teach you, not think for you — he cross-examines multiple models
Chris_Armstrong · x · 2026-09-09
NVIDIA CEO Jensen Huang shared his AI usage philosophy: don't ask AI to think for you, use it to learn what you don't know and solve problems you otherwise couldn't.
His practical workflow:
- Don't use AI as a crutch for things you can already do
- Prompting and asking questions is itself a highly cognitive skill — as a CEO, most of his time is spent asking questions
- He never just accepts an answer, pushing back with "are you sure this is the best answer you can provide?"
- He feeds one AI's answer to another for critique, and asks multiple AIs the same question, having them compare notes to produce the best of all answers
The critique process, he argues, is critical thinking that enhances cognitive skills — essentially a human-driven version of LLM-as-judge.
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