Nvidia chief executive Jensen Huang has urged the United States and China to deepen their dialogue on artificial intelligence, arguing that the chipmaker "absolutely must" cooperate with Chinese AI companies on managing the risks of what he called a "potentially dangerous" technology.
"We absolutely should work with each other so that we advance the technology safely," Huang told CNBC on Wednesday evening in London. He said he already has "dialogues with many of the researchers in China" and that governments should follow suit: "We ought to enhance the dialogue... The United States should do it... I advocated that the U.K. do the same thing."
The comments come as AI safety debates intensify. Researchers from labs including OpenAI and Anthropic have called for a slowdown in development and warned of existential risks to humanity, while OpenAI's Sam Altman and Anthropic's Dario Amodei have pushed for greater regulation. Huang has emerged as a prominent voice opposing that view.
Huang's remarks also land against a backdrop of official US-China discussions. In September, US Treasury Secretary Scott Bessent raised the prospect of a "US-China AI dialogue" with Chinese counterpart He Lifeng, including a channel for incidents "up to a national security level." A Chinese readout said President Xi Jinping told the United States that the two sides "may have competition, but they may cooperate even more" in AI, and could "continue their dialogue on AI, exchange views on its risks and benefits, and jointly prevent the misuse and abuse of AI."
Huang added that the UK is well placed to serve as a "convener" of such dialogues because of its "intellectual capital."