Jensen Huang: The Doomer Hoax, Superintelligence is Here, and The Future of AI (ft. President Trump) · 2026-09-14 · primary
Themes: Open Source as Strategy · US-China Framing · Closed vs. Open Split · Economic Argument · Safety Debate · Historical Arc · Spectrum of Motivations
Compute, not algorithms or talent, decides who can compete at the frontier.
And the reason for that is because they're trying to solve uh the frontier problems. And so in their defense and so it's sensible that um the labs, the frontier labs will be where the most danger come from. It is unlikely that a high school student uh did something because they just simply won't have enough compute,
Jensen Huang: The Doomer Hoax, Superintelligence is Here, and The Future of AI (ft. President Trump) · 2026-09-14
right? And so uh it's unlikely that a startup will be the reason because they won't have enough compute. It's it's uh they you know in fact you could look across the planet and everybody won't have enough compute with the exception of the frontier labs. And so now the question is if you look at what actually happened um and they're doing pioneering work. It's really very hard. Um they're transitioning from research to engineering. Um, I could imagine and they're they're they're they're obviously building some of the most consequential technology and companies in the world.
Jensen Huang: The Doomer Hoax, Superintelligence is Here, and The Future of AI (ft. President Trump) · 2026-09-14
right? And um if you look at look at the actual problems um all of the actual problems so far have come from the labs. And the reason for that, the reason for that and just in their defense, the reason for that is because they have the most compute,
Jensen Huang: The Doomer Hoax, Superintelligence is Here, and The Future of AI (ft. President Trump) · 2026-09-14
The claim that advanced AI poses a catastrophic risk is overblown, and the fear does more damage than the technology.
They're much more pragmatic about it. They see AI as a technology that's going to advance their economy, advance their society and they don't have these groups who are basically saying it's going to end civilization
Jensen Huang: The Doomer Hoax, Superintelligence is Here, and The Future of AI (ft. President Trump) · 2026-09-14
And they're measurably they're they're actually demonstrably untrue and it actually makes sense as untrue. It's not based on science. It's not based on research. Everything that's based on science and research proves otherwise. Is it a fear of the frontier? Humans have never been there. We've never seen it. Therefore, we're scared of it and therefore it's easy to tell everyone to be scared of it.
Jensen Huang: The Doomer Hoax, Superintelligence is Here, and The Future of AI (ft. President Trump) · 2026-09-14
You see, the great thing about life is that Jensen can develop the most complex computer chip in the world that nobody can copy for 10 years. But he can't figure out how to put me on SPEAKER THING. We have to remember this one. So interesting the AI. It's almost as conspiracy and the happiest group is China and China is very happy. And I could even say in the country a lot of states are happy that weren't going to get anything because they're being uh inundated by people that want to be there. But now all of a sudden you see they're building in Finland. They want to build one.
Jensen Huang: The Doomer Hoax, Superintelligence is Here, and The Future of AI (ft. President Trump) · 2026-09-14
Capable models should be required to pass pre-release testing, binding open weights and closed APIs alike.
and the auditors are quite um they don't have to be as expert as we are in our business but they just have to ask the right questions and um I think I heard somebody say that it's good to have uh independent auditors or evaluators but they just have to have multiple. I agree with that too. Just as there's multiple evaluated and auditors, it makes sure that one company doesn't become, you know, pilled or somehow influenced um for whatever reason. And so you, you know, there's a lot of different ways that you could solve this.
Jensen Huang: The Doomer Hoax, Superintelligence is Here, and The Future of AI (ft. President Trump) · 2026-09-14
well this is the new sexy phrase but as you guys know RSI is a combination of a system of ideas. It's um it starts everything with in context stuff. It starts with skills. It starts with reflection. It starts with, you know, reinforcement learning and synthetic data generation. And these are all very sensible ideas that causes AI to get better at solving a problem, you know, over time. And you could also have uh low rank, you know, all of that stuff doesn't include the weights. Uh you could actually improve the weights and it's called Laura.
Jensen Huang: The Doomer Hoax, Superintelligence is Here, and The Future of AI (ft. President Trump) · 2026-09-14
No. No, of course not. And the reason for that is because you could RSI all day long inside your company, but when you release a product, you've got to evaluate it, don't you? You have to test it again, don't you? You have to make sure that there's no regression, right? And so the basic process of control. These labs are going to as they move from labs to engineering, they will have much better control,
Jensen Huang: The Doomer Hoax, Superintelligence is Here, and The Future of AI (ft. President Trump) · 2026-09-14
Open models keep AI continually available, rather than dependent on any one provider's decisions.
Because their dream could be different. Obviously, it'll be different than the labs, the frontier labs dreams. And there's America has so many different ways to innovate. That's one of our core strengths. Great ideas just coming out of the fountain. And so open models enables that. Open models enables every single if we want to win the AI race. It's not about a few technology companies winning the AI race. It's about every company in America. Every comp, every company, every industry, every researcher, every teacher, every student, every startup, everybody wins.
Jensen Huang: The Doomer Hoax, Superintelligence is Here, and The Future of AI (ft. President Trump) · 2026-09-14
Open models strengthen the country that hosts them, so restricting their release weakens the very position it means to protect.
Open weights prevent AI from being controlled by a few actors, because anyone can run them.
Releasing model weights raises the risk of catastrophic misuse, because guardrails cannot be applied and usage cannot be monitored once the weights are out.
A coordinated slowdown is worth pursuing even at the cost of advantage, because uncoordinated speed is the greater risk.
Slowing down is definitely the wrong strategy.
Jensen Huang: The Doomer Hoax, Superintelligence is Here, and The Future of AI (ft. President Trump) · 2026-09-14
we've got to run America. We got to run.
Jensen Huang: The Doomer Hoax, Superintelligence is Here, and The Future of AI (ft. President Trump) · 2026-09-14
Safety and innovation trade off against one another: what makes a model safer makes it less capable or less widely available, so pushing on one goal costs ground on the other.
Yeah. and uh first there is a there's a part about safety which we have to take very seriously. Safety is paramount. Obviously um uh safety and leadership are not false. They're false choices. You're you're able to innovate quickly. You're able to execute quickly and uh America's able to lead and to do it safely. I think those are those are false choices but safety is obviously important. Uh there's a matter of internal control that I think he was speaking to. Uh obviously the coxin uh whistleblower is very serious matter.
Jensen Huang: The Doomer Hoax, Superintelligence is Here, and The Future of AI (ft. President Trump) · 2026-09-14
Building national AI capacity on sovereign infrastructure is sound policy for smaller countries, not merely a way to sell deployments.
And we if we're going to lead and I have an expression, it's whoever wins AI wins. That's how big it is. It's bigger than the internet. And whoever wins AI wins. And we can't let this kind of stuff happen. And that includes very much includes data centers. There are communities that were dying that have data centers right now. And now they're wealthy communities. Really wealthy communities. We're We're going to make sure that We're going to make sure that everybody We're going to make sure that everybody wins in the AI race in America. Every industry, every company, every state, every people.
Jensen Huang: The Doomer Hoax, Superintelligence is Here, and The Future of AI (ft. President Trump) · 2026-09-14
The world needs both closed models and open models. Um, you want you want to use I use as much closed models as I can. This weekend I used four of them and uh they work terrifically. They're frontier. They're great experience. They right they work incredibly well. They're getting better all the time. Uh, and the way I think about closed models is kind of like bottled water. You know, water is free, you guys. I don't know if I've told you guys, but water is free. I don't want to, you know, burst everybody's bubble, but water's free. And this morning, I used a lot of free water taking a shower.
Jensen Huang: The Doomer Hoax, Superintelligence is Here, and The Future of AI (ft. President Trump) · 2026-09-14
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