Jensen Huang says the AI industry does not need new laws or regulations
Chief executive of Nvidia speaking in an on-stage interview
“We don’t need any new laws. We don’t need new regulations. … If you build a product or a service and you’re not confident in its functionality, capability or safety, then don’t release it.”
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Politico report datelined San Francisco, timestamped 5:27 PM ET on September 15, 2026 and updated at 7:08 PM. Covers the Dreamforce megaconference hosted by Marc Benioff, at which Huang, Amodei and Altman each spoke.
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Huang spoke at the Dreamforce conference in San Francisco minutes after Dario Amodei, whose weekend calls to slow AI development had set off a political argument. The day before, Trump had called Huang on speakerphone at a separate event and called existential AI warnings a hoax.
After the quotation
Huang also called fears that AI would automate away jobs “completely nonsense.” The ellipsis marks intervening narration by the reporters between two quoted sentences.
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Case context: Should Washington impose stronger safeguards on frontier AI?
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Why this label?
The case proposition is that Washington should impose stronger safeguards on frontier AI. Huang rejects that proposition directly, arguing existing arrangements suffice and that safety is a release decision for companies.
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