On Ezra Klein’s Podcast With Jensen Huang

kept by eddie sep 28

Jensen Huang's engineering mindset leads him to argue AI labs must not ship unsafe products, inadvertently calling for OpenAI to be shut down if they cannot contain their experiments.

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