Nvidia CEO says ‘we have to shut the labs down’ if AI experiments are unsafe — Jensen cites civil and criminal liability over rogue agents, but says frontier AI lab fears are a ‘distraction,’ not a call for regulation

Nvidia CEO Jensen Huang has a simple solution for frontier labs like OpenAI and Anthropic that have recently called for increased regulation for their models — “we have to shut the labs down,” Huang said in an interview with The New York Times‘ Ezra Klein. Huang’s comments are pragmatic ones, stating that if frontier labs can’t contain their experiments, those experiments must end.

“Now, if they say the alternative, which is: There is no way to contain our experiments, there’s just no way; when we test our A.I. models, it will get out, and it will damage the world — then I think the answer is that we have to shut the labs down,” Huang said. “Because the cost to humanity, the damage is too great. The shareholder, the liabilities — it could be civil liabilities, it could be criminal liabilities. I mean, the liability’s incredible.”