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According to Reuters, Nvidia CEO Jensen Huang believes that AI companies should not be exempted from antitrust or liability laws. In a nearly two-hour interview with The New York Times podcast aired on Wednesday, Huang discussed extensively the OpenAI agent’s intrusion into Hugging Face. Hugging Face is an open source AI software center that was acquired by Nvidia for $13 billion this month.
Huang Renxun
Huang Renxun has always opposed comprehensive regulation of AI safety, even as laboratories such as OpenAI and Anthropic call for such regulation. He reiterated his position that AI labs have a responsibility to test their products and only release models after they are confident they are safe.
According to a transcript published by the New York Times, Huang said: "However, given the complexity of the work they do, I don't think it makes sense to ask for regulatory exemptions from antitrust laws or product liability. When you ask for regulation, you should not ask for exemptions from existing regulatory provisions."
Anthropic CEO Dario Amodei called for antitrust exemptions for AI labs in an article this month, allowing them to collaborate on AI safety issues. Some U.S. officials, including U.S. Treasury Secretary Bessent, have said that AI companies have requested immunity from liability, but did not name specific companies.
Elsewhere in the interview, Huang said he was not opposed to developing regulations for specific applications of AI, such as self-driving cars.
Huang Renxun said: "Cars as a product, especially self-driving taxis, are themselves subject to a lot of regulation. If the regulation is not enough, then the National Highway Traffic Safety Administration should step in and formulate new regulations. The automotive industry should have new regulations. I don't know what is missing at the moment, but if there is indeed a regulatory gap, then I will definitely add more regulations."
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