Nvidia CEO Jensen Huang says AI firms can skip new laws and still build safely

Nvidia Corp. Chief Executive Officer Jensen Huang dismissed the need for new artificial intelligence security regulations on Tuesday, arguing that market forces will help companies safely innovate.

“We don’t need new laws — we don’t need new regulations,” Huang said during a Salesforce Inc. event. The CEO added that there’s a “false choice” about AI development being either safe or fast, reiterating a point he’s made previously.

“You can definitely have both at the same time,” he said during a conversation with Salesforce CEO Marc Benioff. “You pace yourself until you’re confident you’re releasing something that the market would appreciate. The market forces are already there.”

Huang has added his voice to a polarizing discussion about how to manage AI risks. Though leaders from Anthropic PBC and other major labs have discussed an orchestrated slowdown of tech development, other leaders have called for alternative approaches.

Meta Platforms Inc. CEO Mark Zuckerberg said Tuesday that labs should rely on independent evaluators and advisers to ensure that AI models are safe.

Huang’s company is the biggest maker of artificial intelligence accelerators — the chips at the heart of a massive data center build-out — and he’s one of the most prominent advocates for the broader AI industry. At an event earlier this week, he held an onstage phone call with President Donald Trump where they pushed back against the idea that AI development should be slowed.

The debate has grown more intense in recent days, especially after Anthropic CEO Dario Amodei published a 3,800-word essay endorsing the slowdown. That followed the high-profile resignation of an Anthropic employee, who said the company and rival OpenAI were “gambling with our lives” because their technology could become a threat to humanity.

Huang said Tuesday that companies can decide not to release things that are harmful.

“Safety is paramount,” he said. “In a lot of ways, it’s job one. However, safety is an engineering problem.”

If we reach a point when “the company is out of control and the product’s not going to be safe, take a pause and make sure you get it right,” he said.