Nvidia CEO Says ‘Zero Percent’ Chance of AI Making Humans Extinct

Nvidia CEO Jensen Huang has rejected the claims of some artificial intelligence researchers that the technology could wipe out humanity, calling the arguments “doomsday narratives.”

Huang said in a Sept. 17 interview with CBS News that predictions made by former Anthropic researcher Jacob Coxon and Anthropic’s alignment science lead, Evan Hubinger, were not grounded in science.

Coxon said in a Sept. 9 post on X that the “people building AI earnestly believe that it could kill us all by the end of the decade.”

Hubinger said he agreed that it could end humanity.

“Jacob is correct here—We really do earnestly believe AI could kill all humans! I personally think it is >10% within the next decade,” he wrote.

Huang told CBS’s senior business and technology correspondent Jo Ling Kent on Sept. 17 that 2030 will not be the end of the world.

“There is zero percent chance that’s going to be the end of the world,” he said. “Scaring people is unnecessary. It is irresponsible.”

U.S. President Donald Trump said in a Sept. 14 post on Truth Social that the United States needed no AI guardrails and that it already had significant criminal and regulatory power over big tech companies.

“There is a SICK conspiracy going on against AI and Data Centers, and the only one that is happy about it is China,” Trump wrote.

Nvidia CEO Agrees With Trump

Huang said on Sept. 17 that he agreed with the U.S. president’s view on legislation and regulation.

“Before we come up with new laws and new regulations, let’s apply the current laws and current regulations,” Huang said.

“There are all kinds of laws and regulations. … You have cybersecurity unauthorized entry, you have damage liabilities, all kinds of liabilities associated with cybersecurity. All kinds of liabilities associated with products. … My point is apply those first, don’t let this doomsday narrative cause someone to relieve them of the laws that currently exist.”

He has been invited to a dinner at the White House on Sept. 24, when Trump will host Chinese leader Xi Jinping.

Trump has said that AI will be on the agenda during his meeting with Xi.

China

Huang told CBS that Xi wanted China to benefit from AI.

“They want China to prosper, just as we want America to prosper,” Huang said.

Nvidia manufactures specialized H200 chips that power large language models used by AI agents to synthesize information.

Trump said in a Dec. 8 post on Truth Social that he had told Xi that the United States would allow exports of Nvidia H200 chips to approved customers in China “under conditions that allow for continued strong National Security.”

In July 2025, Nvidia restarted exports of H20 graphics processing units (GPUs) to China after U.S. regulators approved it.

Nvidia is now worth more than $5 trillion, making it the most valuable company on the planet. The company manufactures many of its chips in Taiwan, but last year, it opened a semiconductor fabrication plant in Phoenix.

Last month, Taiwanese authorities indicted nine people, including a senior partner manager at Nvidia’s Taiwan unit, for allegedly taking part in a scheme to export servers with advanced Nvidia chips to China.

In June, Taiwan-born Huang told Nvidia shareholders that attempts to build artificial intelligence data centers with smuggled chips were a “dead end,” because the company provides no support or repairs for such products.

“National security is first and foremost,” Huang said. “Where commercial opportunities conflict with U.S. national security, national security comes first.”