TLDR
- Nvidia CEO Jensen Huang argued against AI regulation at a Salesforce conference in San Francisco, calling safety “an engineering problem”
- Huang’s comments were praised by Treasury Secretary Scott Bessent and Trump AI adviser David Sacks
- Trump called Huang during a summit appearance Monday to publicly back his anti-regulation stance
- NVDA was up 0.5% in premarket Wednesday, recovering from losses earlier in the week after Anthropic and OpenAI CEOs called for slower AI development
- Huang is expected to attend Trump’s state dinner for Chinese President Xi Jinping on September 24
Nvidia CEO Jensen Huang is positioning himself as the loudest corporate voice against AI regulation, and Wall Street is taking notice.
NVDA was up 0.5% in premarket trading Wednesday after a rough start to the week. The stock dropped after the CEOs of Anthropic and OpenAI publicly backed slowing AI development, possibly through new regulation.
Huang pushed back hard. Speaking at a Salesforce conference in San Francisco on Tuesday, he said the market already handles AI safety on its own.
“Safety is an engineering problem,” Huang said. “If you build a product or a service and you’re not confident in its functionality, capability, or safety, then don’t release it. The market forces are already there. We don’t need any new laws. We don’t need new regulations.”
The comments landed well in Washington. Treasury Secretary Scott Bessent and Trump AI adviser David Sacks both cited Huang approvingly. President Trump himself called Huang on Monday, in the middle of a summit appearance, to publicly back the anti-slowdown position.
Why Regulation Is Nvidia’s Biggest Risk
For Nvidia, the stakes are real. New rules could limit how many AI processors customers can buy for training models. They could also add costs that push smaller players out of the market entirely.
The worst-case scenario for Nvidia would be something like the moratorium on new data center construction proposed by Sen. Bernie Sanders. That kind of move would directly hit the data-center boom that has driven Nvidia’s growth.
Meta’s Mark Zuckerberg echoed Huang’s position in a social-media post Tuesday, saying individual AI labs already have the incentives to train their models safely. With major customers aligned on this issue, Nvidia has some company in its corner.
It might look unusual for Huang to take a public stance that puts Nvidia at odds with Anthropic and OpenAI, two of its biggest customers. But the math is straightforward: regulation hurts Nvidia far more than any customer friction.
Huang Headed to Trump-Xi State Dinner
Beyond the policy debate, Huang’s access to the White House is growing. Multiple reports say he is expected to attend a state dinner hosted by Trump for Chinese President Xi Jinping on September 24 in Washington.
The dinner comes as the two governments prepare for talks covering economic and technology issues, with AI expected to be a central topic.
Huang already has history at these events. He attended a state dinner in China hosted by Xi for Trump in May, alongside Elon Musk and former Apple CEO Tim Cook.
Nvidia sits squarely at the intersection of U.S.-China AI competition as a top supplier of chips used by AI developers in both countries.
The White House had not commented on Huang’s reported attendance as of Wednesday morning.
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