By Maggie Eastland and Ian King
Publication Date: 2026-03-19 22:03:00
(Bloomberg) – Nvidia Corp. Chief Executive Jensen Huang, when asked how Anthropic PBC could have better handled the messy contract negotiations with the Pentagon, said technology leaders need to be careful not to scare people away from artificial intelligence.
“The desire to warn people about the power of technology is really great,” Huang said during a panel discussion at the company’s technology conference. “Warning is good, scaring is not so good because this technology is too important to us.”
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Underlying this advice is Huang’s belief that the biggest risk to U.S. national security related to AI is that Americans will be so angry, fearful or paranoid that the country will adopt the technology more slowly than its competitors. Anthropic, a major Nvidia customer and maker of the Claude chatbot, remains in conflict with the Trump administration over restrictions that the company…
