AI firms should not get regulatory waivers, Nvidia CEO says on podcast

By Stephen Nellis

SAN FRANCISCO, ‌Sept 23 (Reuters) - Nvidia ​CEO ​Jensen Huang believes AI firms should not receive exemptions from antitrust or liability laws, according to a podcast released on Wednesday.

In ‌a nearly two-hour interview with New York Times podcast host ⁠Ezra Klein, Huang, CEO of the world's most valuable publicly listed company, had an ‌extensive discussion about OpenAI agents ‌that hacked Hugging Face, the open-source AI software hub that Nvidia purchased for $13 billion this month.

Huang, who has opposed blanket AI safety regulation even as labs ​such as OpenAI and Anthropic have called for it, reiterated his position that it is the responsibility of AI labs to test their ⁠products and only release models once they are satisfied models are safe.

"However, in the complexity of the ​work that they do, to ask for regulatory relief for antitrust or product liability relief — that I don’t think ​makes sense. When you’re asking for regulation, ‌don’t ask for relief of the current ones," Huang said, according to a transcript published by the newspaper.

In an ⁠essay published this month, Anthropic CEO Dario Amodei called for an antitrust waiver allowing AI labs to work together on safety issues. Some U.S. officials such as ⁠Treasury Secretary Scott Bessent have said AI firms have asked for liability shields, without naming ​specific firms.

In other portions of the interview, Nvidia's Huang said that he is not opposed to regulations for specific products where AI is applied, such as self-driving cars.

"The car ‌as a product — the robo-taxi — has lots of regulations. If it doesn’t have enough regulations, then NHTSA ought to ‌get involved and come up with new regulations," Huang said. "The car industry should ⁠have new regulations. I don’t ‌know what’s missing, but ​if there is something missing, then I would absolutely add more regulation."

(Reporting by Stephen Nellis in San Francisco; editing by ‌David Gaffen)

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