"AI is just software": Jensen Huang's risk-downplaying remarks spark backlash
designICU · reddit · 2026-09-28
A Reddit post criticizes Jensen Huang's recent remarks: framing AI agents as "just software" to downplay risk ("Photoshop never broke out of its sandbox to hack the Australian government"), plus his claim that basic math skills no longer matter. The author argues both are the same narrative — the man selling you a brain replacement says you don't need your brain anyway. The more cognitive work we hand to machines, the more we need the capacity to evaluate their output, yet Huang's direction implies AI can do the understanding for you, leaving us paying for our own disempowerment.
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