Nvidia CEO Says He Would Stop Chip Supply for Companies With Unsafe AI

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• Nvidia CEO Jensen Huang, asked in a London interview with Bloomberg's Emily Chang whether he would cut off chip supply to a customer developing unsafe AI software, said "hypothetically, yes," while adding he believes current AI safety concerns are not justified, according to Investing.com. Huang was touring Europe ahead of a company event in Berlin.
• Huang said he would talk with a customer first before cutting supply, and that he isn't running other companies and has limited judgment over how they use the technology; the article does not specify any defined criteria, threshold, or process for what counts as "unsafe AI."
• Huang called some AI safety concerns "self-imposed" and said the industry has done a "horrible job" explaining new technology's benefits, arguing AI itself should be used as a monitoring tool and that AI development should accelerate to enable that. Nvidia separately announced a $250 million, five-year donation to UK AI safety research, with Oxford and UCL researching safeguards and AI agent controls.

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