AMSTERDAM (Reuters) – NVIDIA Chief Executive Jensen Huang said on Monday that every country needs to have its own artificial intelligence infrastructure to take advantage of economic potential while protecting its culture.
“You cannot allow other people to do this,” Huang told the World Government Summit in Dubai.
Huang, whose firm has achieved a market value of $1.73 trillion by dominating the high-end AI chip market, said his company is “democratizing” access to artificial intelligence by rapidly improving AI computing efficiency.
“The rest is up to you: you have to take the initiative, activate your industry, build the infrastructure as quickly as possible.”
He said concerns about the dangers of AI are overblown, noting that other new technologies and industries such as automobiles and aviation are being successfully regulated.
“There are some interests to scare people with this new technology, to mystify this technology, to encourage other people to do nothing with this technology and rely on them to do it. And I think that’s a mistake.”
Following a new round of U.S. restrictions imposed in October on some of its artificial intelligence chips, Nvidia said in November it was working with customers in China and the Middle East to obtain export licenses for new products that would comply with the rules. USA.
The CEO did not address the issue on Monday.
Nvidia is scheduled to report fourth-quarter earnings on February 21.