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"Jensen Huang Says If We Cannot Align AI, Shut Down the AI Labs" by Ben Pace

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LessWrong (Curated & Popular)
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Sep 24, 2026
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Summary

I was very surprised today on a podcast to hear Jensen Huang plainly state that if they cannot align the AIs, then the labs must shut down. The context I have on Huang is that he has run NVIDIA for 30+ years, which has become the most valuable company in the world due to the AI boom. My understanding is that he has repeatedly encouraged the US President (with whom he is on friendly terms) to continue to support AI, and dismissed AI talk as "sci-fi". If you haven't seen, his biographer h...