By Dave Smith
Publication Date: 2025-11-25 15:01:00
Nvidia CEO Jensen Huang is telling employees to lean into artificial intelligence as much as possible—and to stop worrying that doing so will automate them out of a job.
Speaking at an all-hands meeting last Thursday, the day after the chipmaker reported another quarter of record results, Huang reacted sharply to reports that some managers inside the company were urging teams to dial back their AI use. Business Insiderlistened to the meeting.
“My understanding is Nvidia has some managers who are telling their people to use less AI,” Huang said. “Are you insane?”
“I want every task that is possible to be automated with artificial intelligence to be automated with artificial intelligence,” he added. “I promise you, you will have work to do.”
Huang told staff that Nvidia’s own software engineers use AI coding assistant Cursor, and urged workers to keep relying on AI tools even when they fall short. If AI does not yet work for a particular task, he said, employees should “use it until it does” and “jump in and help make it better, because we have the power to do so.”
Silicon Valley leans into AI
Nvidia isn’t alone in this strategy to use AI to build AI. Microsoft in June told staffers that using AI is “no longer optional” and is baking tools like GitHub Copilot into internal workflows, while Meta plans to factor employees’ AI usage into performance reviews. Google in June also told engineers to start using the company’s own Gemini AI for…
