Nvidia CEO Jensen Huang urged G20 countries today to avoid regulating AI based on potential harms that have not materialized, adding the chipmaker’s voice to a U.S.-led push for lighter AI regulation.
Speaking at a G20 technology meeting in Chapel Hill, N.C., Huang said governments should focus on problems that actually emerge rather than trying to anticipate every possible risk from the technology, Reuters reported. His remarks came a day after the Trump administration pressed G20 members to avoid creating broad new AI regulations and regulatory organizations.
The administration is promoting what it calls the “Carolina Principles,” which encourage governments to reserve new regulation for genuinely novel issues and otherwise rely on existing regulatory frameworks. U.S. technology adviser Michael Kratsios said policymakers should not treat every emerging technology as requiring an entirely new policy regime.
Huang’s intervention puts one of the AI industry’s most influential executives behind that approach. Nvidia has become the dominant supplier of the chips used to train and run advanced AI models, giving the company a large stake in how governments regulate the technology.
The G20 gathering has brought together government officials and AI executives, with OpenAI CEO Sam Altman and Anthropic co-founder Tom Brown scheduled to appear.