By Ece Yildirim
Publication Date: 2026-03-20 20:10:00
AI is having a major PR crisis, and Nvidia CEO Jensen Huang is really worried about it.
As AI technology improves and leverages the underregulated space it inhabits to creep further into modern society, the risks it brings have become a major topic of public discussion over the past year or so. Due to the increased visibility of the risks of AI, from addiction to the technology’s role in warfare, there’s been a growing resentment of the technology, even leading to calls for AI chatbot boycotts and data center moratoriums.
Speaking to the press at the company’s GPU Technology Conference in California this week, Huang’s goal seemed to be to do some damage control for AI, while cautioning against AI doomerism and increased regulatory action.
“We have to make sure that we continue to inform the policymakers and not allow doomerism and extremism to affect how policymakers think and understand about this technology,” Huang told the All In podcast.
While “the desire to warn people about the capability of the technology is also really terrific,” Huang said that he does not want people to be scared of the proliferation of AI.
“The risk that we run as a nation, our greatest source of national security concern with respect to AI, is other countries adopt this technology while we are so angry at it, or afraid of it, or somehow paranoid of it, that our industries, our society, don’t take advantage of AI,” Huang said. “So I’m mostly worried…
