NVIDIA CEO Jensen Huang said in an interview that there is "0% chance" that 2030 will be "the end of the world," rejecting recent AI extinction warnings as overblown doomsday narratives. His company makes the chips that train the most advanced AI models, and he is now publicly at odds with the AI leaders who warn of extinction risk and urge a slower pace. Huang also tied that split to a concrete policy argument: apply existing liability and cybersecurity law first, and do not make new AI rules the opening move. The interview was published Sept. 20, 2026.
"2030 is not going to be the end of the world. There is 0% chance that's going to be the end of the world," Huang said. He added, "Scaring people is unnecessary. It is irresponsible," and said he rejects end-of-decade extinction predictions because they are "not grounded in science." Asked why the public should trust him given NVIDIA's incentives, he said the company's success is "directly connected to the safe deployment of products and services," and that failing to do so would diminish its value. Those are his views, not independent scientific findings.
Huang is not arguing that AI products cannot cause harm. In the interview, he dismissed the need for new AI-specific rules, saying existing U.S. product-liability, unauthorized-entry and cybersecurity laws already cover damage and misuse. "Apply that first," he said. "Don't let this doomsday narrative allow someone to relieve them of the laws that currently exist." In another news report, he was quoted telling listeners to "Go and read between the lines," arguing that some calls for more AI law are really requests to be relieved of laws already on the books.
His remarks came in the same month as warnings from former Anthropic researcher Jacob Coxon and calls to slow down associated with Anthropic CEO Dario Amodei and OpenAI CEO Sam Altman.
It is not yet clear whether lawmakers will find Huang's case for using existing law first convincing, or whether other leading AI companies will answer his points on science and incentives on the record.