Nvidia CEO Jensen Huang said AI leaders are being disingenuous when they call for more regulation of the industry.
In an interview with CBS News aired on Sunday, Huang said frontier AI lab leaders are not really asking for more laws. 'They're actually not asking for more laws. They're asking to be relieved of the laws we do have,' he said.
Huang said he did not know exactly what those 'ulterior reasons' are, but called scaring people about the technology 'irresponsible' and 'unnecessary.'
His comments echoed President Donald Trump, who said on Saturday that new regulations are not needed to keep the technology safe. Trump wrote on Truth Social, 'We will not in any way hinder or stifle the Growth of this incredible Industry.'
Michael Kratsios, the director of the White House Office of Science and Technology Policy, also rejected the idea that tech companies need government intervention to make AI models safe. In a Fox News interview on Sunday, he said labs could just 'stop' if they think their products are dangerous.
Last week, several leading AI CEOs said development should slow until risk-prevention measures are in place. In an essay titled 'We Must Pace the Frontier,' Anthropic CEO Dario Amodei proposed a three-pronged plan to strengthen safeguards, and one prong called for the US government to regulate frontier AI labs 'for antitrust reasons.' Amodei's essay was signal-boosted by OpenAI CEO Sam Altman and SpaceX CEO Elon Musk.
Huang has also warned that slowing US labs would cede ground to China in the global AI race. He said AI labs do not need government help to implement a slowdown, and added, 'We don't need more regulations. We need to apply the current regulations we have.'
For founders, the playbook is familiar: every new layer of rulemaking has a cost in speed, margin, and headcount. When the market is moving this fast, the companies that keep shipping usually win the customers — and the ones waiting on bureaucracy risk handing over the runway to rivals.
The math is simple. If Washington wants safer AI, it still has to decide whether it is protecting the public or protecting incumbents from competition. Huang is betting that the best way to keep America ahead is not more paperwork, but better enforcement of the rules already on the books.
