During a recent interview, Jensen Huang decided to throw a bucket of cold water on AI enthusiasts. The head of Nvidia (a company that has made billions on the artificial intelligence boom) said that the idea of ”divine AI” is a bad plan. And that maybe it would be better to just stop it all. According to Huang, would corporations stop purchasing H200 chips for the sake of humanity? 😉
AGI? Not in this life
In recent years, technology giants have been racing to produce increasingly powerful artificial intelligence models. Every few months someone loudly shouted that AGI (Artificial General Intelligence) was just around the corner. The person who shouts about AGI most often is, of course, Sam Altman, who turned super-artificial intelligence into an effective bait for new investors. Since 2022, Elon Musk has also been warning very loudly against AGI, and as a precaution… he created his own artificial intelligence, i.e. Grok, which is not only getting better (the Grok 4 version beats the competition in benchmarks), but is also extremely liberal when it comes to the generated content. Nevertheless, both Grok 4 and ChatGPT 5.2 are still far from AGI.
Meanwhile, Huang cools down his enthusiasm:
I don’t know of any researcher who has the skills to create an AI god. A machine capable of understanding the language of people, genome, molecules, proteins, amino acids, physics at the highest possible level. Such divine AI simply does not exist
God-AI? It’s better not to build it
But that’s not all. Huang went a step further and said that even if we could create superintelligence, we shouldn’t do it. He called the idea of ”building a monolith in the form of one large company, country or nation-state” harmful. His conclusion? “It’s better to stop everything now.”
This is quite a surprising position in a world where everyone wants to be first in the technological race. But Huang sees the bigger picture – concentrating so much power in the hands of one entity is a recipe for disaster. But aren’t we at such a moment right now? The largest LLMs are in the hands of technology giants that do not want to share both knowledge about training their models and the source code. OpenAI itself started as an open-source project, and now it is not only closed, but also for-profit.
Haters don’t help either
Paradoxically, the head of Nvidia also warns against… excessive pessimism. According to him, “influencers” painting AI in the darkest colors are harming everyone – people, industries, society and governments. Honestly, you couldn’t expect a different position from the CEO of the company that is the foundation of the current AI boom. Interestingly, the interview itself, in which Jensen Huang reveals his thoughts, has a thumbnail reading “AI Bubble is a Myth”. Huang suggests that extreme opinions in both directions (either naive enthusiasm or paralyzing fear) lead to nothing good.
So should we go down the middle? Develop AI carefully, without building digital gods or panicking about the Terminator? In theory, everything is beautiful and simple. Unfortunately, reality clearly shows that where profitable technology is developed, ethics and morality take a backseat.
