TechNvidia CEO Jensen Huang: AI is not a new species, it’s software
CNN’s Anderson Cooper interviews Nvidia CEO Jensen Huang about his views on artificial intelligence regulation. Huang says AI is software, not a new species.

President and CEO of Nvidia Corporation (1993–present)
President and CEO of Nvidia Corporation (1993–present)
| Title | President and CEO of Nvidia Corporation (1993–present) |
|---|---|
| Born | 1963-02-17 · Taipei |
| Citizenship | Taiwan, United States |
| Education | Oregon State University (BS) Stanford University (MS) |
| Known for | Nvidia |
| Awards | IEEE Founders Medal, VinFuture Prize, Edison Award, Primetime Engineering Award, Queen Elizabeth Prize for Engineering, IEEE Medal of Honor |
| Family | Relative: Lisa Su |
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Nvidia CEO Jensen Huang said AI model distillation should be viewed as “competition,” while U.S. Treasury Secretary Scott Bessent has described it as “theft.”
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CNN’s Anderson Cooper interviews Nvidia CEO Jensen Huang about his views on artificial intelligence regulation. Huang says AI is software, not a new species.
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CNN’s Anderson Cooper interviews Nvidia CEO Jensen Huang about his views on artificial intelligence regulation. Huang says AI is software, not a new species.

Americans are more concerned than optimistic about AI’s rapid growth, with broad bipartisan support for stronger federal regulation. OpenAI CEO Sam Altman and Anthropic CEO Dario Amodei have urged the UN to address AI regulation, while Geoffrey Hinton, the “Godfather of AI,” explains why he disagrees with Jensen Huang’s dismissal of AI doomsday scenarios and discusses what global regulation could look like.

Nvidia CEO Jensen Huang says AI could help combat climate change, but only after people endure “an enormous amount of pain and suffering.” The article criticizes this accelerationist argument for accepting pollution from fossil-fuel-powered data centers and questions whether Huang’s immense wealth insulates him from the costs of Nvidia’s energy use.
