Hinton hits back at Jensen Huang: 'He has good reason to say AI isn't dangerous — he sells Nvidia chips'
BlackHC · x · 2026-10-16
Geoffrey Hinton responded to Jensen Huang's criticism: "Jensen has good reason for saying AI's not dangerous because he wants to sell more Nvidia chips."
Nathan Calvin amplified with an obvious-but-underremarked point: Huang's comments consistently align with NVIDIA's business interests — downplaying catastrophic AI risks, minimizing concerns over selling advanced chips to China, and arguing no new AI regulation is needed because liability suffices. He also defends Hinton: dismissing him over the radiologist prediction misses that Hinton won a Nobel Prize and foresaw deep learning's dominance 50 years ago; that miss was about failing to anticipate market/legal/societal responses, not AI capability.
A landmark clash between commercially-interested voices and independent researchers in the AI risk debate.
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