Jensen Huang denies ASI, calls for far more safety spending on Ezra Klein's podcast
TheZvi · x · 2026-09-25
Zvi breaks down Jensen Huang's appearance on Ezra Klein's podcast with his signature bullet-point-plus-commentary format:
- No ASI: Huang doesn't believe in superintelligence as a qualitatively different thing — AI will never be more than a 'new abstraction' beyond software.
- Billion-fold demand: He thinks demand can rise by a billion times and we can 'accelerate the living daylights out of' AI.
- Slip and stance: Huang accidentally called for shutting down OpenAI, and intentionally called for spending vastly more on safety.
Direct quotes are marked; the rest is paraphrase with Zvi's commentary nested underneath. A substantive big-picture statement from one of the industry's defining figures.
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