Jensen Huang May Be the Most Dangerous Man in AI - The Free Press

Jensen Huang May Be the Most Dangerous Man in AI The CEO of Nvidia is, without question, the most powerful person in AI. (Kent Nishimura/AFP via Getty Images) Nvidia’s CEO says there’s a ‘zero percent chance’ AI ends the world, and that companies can police themselves. Even his admiring biographer calls that a ‘libertarian fantasy.’ By Patrick McGee 10.07.26 — Tech and Business This article is part of The New Economy . Follow to get everything we publish on technology, business, markets, and the forces remaking how we work and live. FOLLOW BUNDLE --:-- --:-- Upgrade to Listen Produced by ElevenLabs using AI narration 84 29 READ IN APP READ IN APP Few people outside of tech knew the name Jensen Huang as recently as Donald Trump’s first term. Today, he leads the only company more valuable than Apple; he’s the biggest celebrity in his native Taiwan; and at the White House gathering of the most prominent names in artificial intelligence last week, he was seated next to the president. Huang, of course, is the CEO of Nvidia, and he is, without question, the most powerful person in AI—more even than Sam Altman and Dario Amodei, who lead OpenAI and Anthropic, respectively. The graphics processing chips Nvidia patiently pioneered in the 33 years since Huang co-founded it undergird the massive boom in data centers and AI. After Nvidia earned an astonishing $96 billion in revenue and $60 billion in profits during the most recent quarter, a Wall Street Journal reporter was moved to ask whether there would even be an AI revolution without Nvidia. Stephen Witt, Huang’s biographer, has called him “ the emperor of AI .” Continue Reading The Free Press To support our journalism, and unlock all of our investigative stories and provocative commentary about the world as it actually is, subscribe below. Annual $8.33/month Billed as $100 yearly Save $20! Monthly $10/month Billed as $10 monthly Subscribe Now Already have an account? Sign In To read this article, sign in or subscribe