Extended interview: Nvidia CEO explains why he disagrees with AI warnings

Jensen, thank you for doing this today. >> I'm happy to do it. Nice to see you. >> It's nice to see you, too. Thank you for your time. My first question, we've heard from some of the top CEOs, Dario Amadeday, Sam Alman, Elon Musk saying that we need to pace the development of

AI. You've got whistleblowers saying that the end of humanity could be within 10 years. Do you agree with this? Well, first of all, [clears throat and cough] uh AI technology is is uh uh incredibly powerful. It could of course do incredible good and it could be applied to uh uh terrible applications as well.

And so so we we have to make sure that when we're developing this technology, we develop it safely. And the industry is transitioning from uh developing an AI technology that was that was that is becoming capable meaning that uh this this first part of this year we went through a transition where AI became

useful and it became useful uh the demand for it is incredible. Uh token generation of these AI products are now profitable and actually incredibly profitable. So many companies are adopting it. Uh, OpenAI's latest Astra is incredible. We're using it all over the place. We use cloud code. We use cursor. Uh, SpaceX SpaceX AI's product.

Uh, we use um, uh, cognition. And so the capability of the technology has now reached extremely useful state. And so these companies are transitioning from being a lab trying to get the technology to work to now a products company. And so in fact you know even calling it a lab kind of tells you something. They

were in research for the first 1015 years and now all of a sudden in the last six months practically the industry has shifted to high production ramp mode. And so so I think that all of the all of the um the reactions um that are happening are part of that transition at its core.