SANTA CLARA, September 19 — Jensen Huang wants the artificial intelligence industry to keep its foot on the gas. The Nvidia founder and CEO told CBS News that development should continue at full speed, even as a growing chorus of voices inside the industry calls for caution. Asked by CBS News senior business and technology correspondent Jo Ling Kent whether AI development needs to slow down, Huang was direct.
“We should go as fast as we can irrespective of anybody else,” he said. Huang paired that accelerationist stance with a promise about safety.
“We’re going to go as fast as we can, but we would never ever, and never should, ship products before they’re ready, deliver products that are unsafe,” he said. “And nobody’s expecting us to do that. But everybody’s expecting us to succeed and help America be as prosperous as possible.”
A split inside the industry
The interview, updated September 18, is scheduled to air the weekend of September 20 on “Sunday Morning.” It lands at a moment when the AI world is openly arguing with itself about how quickly to deploy increasingly capable systems. That argument has a face. Jacob Coxon, a researcher at AI company Anthropic, publicly resigned his position earlier in September 2026, saying AI companies are rushing to innovate at the expense of proper security protocols.
He told CBS News that without intervention, AI could one day pose a threat to humanity. Days after Coxon’s resignation, Anthropic CEO Dario Amodei appeared to echo some of those concerns in his own interview with Kent.
Amodei said that “for too long the industry lied to people about the fact that this technology had risks,” and described the technology as developing at an “exponential” rate. He was careful not to call for a shutdown. “It doesn’t mean we need to panic today.
It doesn’t mean we need to shut it all down,” Amodei said, but he called it “a warning sign that we need to slow down.” Huang’s comments carry unusual weight because of where he sits. Nvidia, based in Santa Clara, California, is the world’s most valuable company, with a market capitalization above $5 trillion — a position built largely on the AI boom.
Its chips power much of the AI data-center buildout, and the company’s fortunes are tied directly to continued rapid adoption of AI.
What to watch
The two men now frame the industry’s central divide. Huang speaks for acceleration from the helm of its most valuable company; Amodei speaks for caution from one of its leading research labs. Concern over the pace of AI development has grown in recent weeks, with some calling for guardrails and government regulation.
Watch the full exchange when it airs September 20 on “Sunday Morning” — and watch whether the industry’s loudest voices keep pulling in opposite directions.
