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Jensen Huang slams "AI will destroy humanity" claims as fabricated hype

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On October 22, 2026, NVIDIA CEO Jensen Huang, at a company meeting in Berlin, attacked the claim that "AI will destroy humanity," calling it nonsense and largely "fabrication" and "cheap" hype aimed at generating headlines. Responding to predictions by some scientific experts that "AI will destroy humanity within 10 years," he said those predictions are all wrong, and that the so-called 10% probability has neither scientific basis nor research support. The report also noted that in an interview with The New York Times in September this year, he had expressed the same view, arguing that the current panic over AI is excessive and that AI will not necessarily replace jobs but will first replace tasks. At present, there are no new developments in this matter.

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  1. Phoenix Technology

    Jensen Huang slams claims that AI will destroy humanity as nonsense

    NVIDIA CEO Jensen Huang publicly criticized the claim that "AI will destroy humanity within 10 years," calling it complete nonsense and cheap hype designed to generate headlines. He pointed out that such predictions have never come true, and that the so-called 10% probability of threat has neither rigorous scientific basis nor academic data to support it, and only creates unnecessary panic. He called on the industry and the public to view AI development with responsible optimism, arguing that now is the best time to advance the implementation of AI technology.

  2. Phoenix Technology

    Jensen Huang refutes the "AI will destroy humanity" theory: it is pure fabrication, cheap attention-grabbing hype

    NVIDIA CEO Jensen Huang again attacked the "AI will destroy humanity" rhetoric at a company meeting in Berlin, calling it nonsense and, more often than not, "fabrication" and "cheap" hype aimed at generating headlines. Responding to predictions by some scientific experts that "AI will destroy humanity within 10 years," he said those predictions are all wrong, and that the so-called 10% probability has neither scientific basis nor research support. In an interview with The New York Times in September this year, he already expressed the same view, believing that the current panic over AI is excessive, and that AI will not necessarily replace jobs, but will first replace tasks.

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