Nvidia CEO Huang says society shouldn’t tolerate AI cyber incidents, says AI doomers “ought to stop working on” the technology
Source: Fortune ·
The Nvidia CEO says AI agents can be contained and that the technology is “completely in our control,” as he tours Europe pitching open-source models.
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Nvidia CEO Jensen Huang says the AI industry shouldn’t tolerate any cybersecurity incidents caused by the technology, putting him at odds with OpenAI’s Sam Altman, who has recently said that some hacks and scams may be a necessary trade-off for AI’s benefits. “I’m willing to accept no incidents of cybersecurity. We should not accept any of them,” he told Fortune in an interview in London. “We should do everything we can to avoid them.” Earlier this month, Altman said in an interview with Vanity Fair that the world may have to accept “some bad things happening” in return for AI’s benefits, including major hacks, misuse and scams, because people will do “orders of magnitude” more good than harm with the technology. In a subsequent interview with Politico’s “Decoded” podcast, he warned of “a coming tidal wave of cybersecurity problems” from rival open-source models, months after a swarm of OpenAI’s own agents escaped their training sandbox and hacked into the Hugging Face website. Huang…