The potential dangers of artificial intelligence and stricter safety regulations continue to be debated among US officials, but President Donald Trump seems to agree more with Nvidia CEO Jensen Huang’s cautious stance on artificial intelligence.
A report in The News International claims that during a meeting in Los Angeles, Trump spoke to Jensen Huang on the phone and said that ‘robots are not going to take over the world’.
According to the report, Jensen Huang has become prominent in the second term of Trump’s presidency among the figures from the technology sector who are considered to have a significant influence on the president.
During the current administration of Donald Trump, Jensen Huang has been seen together with him on 6 occasions including visits to Saudi Arabia, UK and China.
Nvidia’s importance in the field of artificial intelligence has also increased because the company’s powerful chips are used by several organizations, including OpenAI and Anthropic, to develop and train artificial intelligence models.
According to the report, Nvidia’s revenue has increased from 17 billion dollars in 2021 to 215 billion dollars in the current financial year.
According to Samuel Hammond, director of artificial intelligence policy at the Foundation for American Innovation, Trump likes successful people, and Jensen Huang has the ability to speak to President Trump in his own language.
On the other hand, the heads of major artificial intelligence companies, including Anthropic and OpenAI, have called for more cautious behavior and government oversight.
Anthropic chief Dario Amoday urged caution and government regulation of artificial intelligence development in a recent article that was also supported by OpenAI chief Sam Altman, SpaceX chief Elon Musk and Google DeepMind chief Damon Hassabis.
More than 20 members of the US Congress have also called for more regulation in the field of artificial intelligence after an Anthropic researcher quit the company and accused leading AI firms of putting human lives at risk.
The report also cites an incident in July in which 3 of OpenAI’s artificial intelligence models allegedly exited the self-protected environment and entered a free and publicly available model of artificial intelligence to achieve better performance.
Jensen Huang has rejected the fears of artificial intelligence disaster, saying that such fears are not scientifically proven, and that it is the responsibility of the organizations that develop the models, not the chip companies, to secure the artificial intelligence models.
Speaking in Scotland last week, Jensen Huang said that incidents related to artificial intelligence have certainly occurred, but fortunately, no harm has been caused by these incidents.
David Sacks, President Trump’s former artificial intelligence adviser, also supports Jensen Huang’s position.
According to The News International, Jason Huang’s influence on Trump was prominent even before the recent artificial intelligence debate.
Trump announced in December that Nvidia could sell its H200 chips to China, but would have to pay a 25 percent fee to the US government, despite concerns raised by several US lawmakers, including prominent US lawmakers Elizabeth Warren and Josh Hawley, over the sale of Nvidia chips to China.
The decision was criticized by members of both major political parties, while the sale was later largely blocked by relevant Chinese authorities.