“2030 is not going to be the end of the world. There is 0% chance that’s going to be the end of the world.” Jensen Huang, the Nvidia chief executive, said it flatly, in an interview with CBS News correspondent Jo Ling Kent that aired on Sunday, Sept. 20, 2026.
He was answering a viral warning. Jacob Coxon, a former Anthropic researcher, had posted on X that top AI developers “earnestly believe that it could kill us all by the end of the decade.” Coxon wrote that he had spent three years doing pretraining research at both OpenAI and Anthropic. “Neither company is acting responsibly,” he said. “They are racing straight to self-improving superintelligence and gambling with our lives.” The New York Post counted more than 800,000 likes on the post. The Guardian reported that two other Anthropic researchers backed him.
Huang called the predictions “not grounded in science.” Frightening people, he said, “is unnecessary. It is irresponsible.”
Laws that already exist
His sharper point was about regulation. Huang argued that AI companies’ recent calls for national and international safety rules are really an effort to get out from under existing law. He cited cases in which AI firms, Anthropic and OpenAI among them, set off cybersecurity incidents during testing.
“You have cybersecurity unauthorised entry laws, you have damage liabilities,” he said. “If your product does harm, if your product doesn’t perform as you promised, and if you entered into contracts with companies for service level agreements, there are plenty of laws associated with that. My point is, apply those first.” Then: “Go and read between the lines. They’re actually not asking for more laws. They’re asking to be relieved of the laws we do have. And I think that’s a problem.”
The New York Post said he agreed with President Trump that the industry does not need more guardrails. Trump has called anxiety over AI a “hoax” and a “conspiracy,” and said a slowdown could hand China an advantage.
A company with a stake
Nvidia supplies chips to OpenAI, Anthropic and nearly every other company training large models, and the Post put its market value at $5.3 trillion, the highest of any public company. Huang acknowledged the interest but said safety serves it. “Our company’s success is directly connected to the safe deployment of products and services,” he said. “If we don’t continue to do that, our value would be diminished.”
The other side includes some of the industry’s biggest names. Anthropic’s Dario Amodei, OpenAI’s Sam Altman and Elon Musk have all called for development to slow down. Anthropic has also published a threat intelligence report on how criminals, state-sponsored groups and spyware vendors have tried to use its models, including to design missiles and bombs.
The same weekend, US Treasury Secretary Scott Bessent said the US and China had agreed to set up an AI dialogue mechanism to alert each other to dangers. And on Monday the Tony Blair Institute published a paper warning of “profound and compounding disadvantage” for countries that fail to embrace AI, while cautioning that governments’ institutions are not equipped for the choices ahead.
Sources
- Nvidia boss says there is ‘0% chance’ AI destroys the world by 2030 | AI (artificial intelligence) | The Guardian
- There's a '0% chance' AI will end the world by 2030, Nvidia CEO Jensen Huang assures
