Nvidia founder and CEO Jensen Huang made his position on the dangers AI poses very clear while speaking at Salesforce’s Dreamforce conference on Tuesday. He argued that AI is just hardware and software, built by humans, and thus can be controlled by humans and existing laws.
"Safety is an engineering problem, not a legal one," he said. "We’re developing software after all. We’re developing computing systems after all.
It’s a complicated computing system, but it’s ultimately a computing system."
Huang believes that the free market will be enough to pressure companies not to release unsafe products.
"If we’re not confident about the safety of the products, like all companies, like you and I, all the companies here, if you build a product or a service, and you’re not confident in its functionality, capability, or safety, then don’t release it," he said.
He continued: "You pace yourself until you are confident you’re releasing something that the market would appreciate. The market forces are already there. We don’t need any new laws.
We don’t need new regulations. We just need companies to decide that when [to] run as fast as they can."
In some ways, this is a comforting thought. If anyone in the world knows AI, it is Nvidia’s founder, who’s been building the hardware brains of AI since well before ChatGPT existed.
The "leave them alone" strategy, which would let these companies release products as they see fit, could be an unwise approach to AI safety as far as society is concerned.
Source: techcrunch
