Nvidia's AI Safety Stance Criticized by Pope Leo XIV and US President Trump
Nvidia's CEO Jensen Huang has faced criticism from an unexpected quarter - Pope Leo XIV. The pontiff expressed concerns about AI safety, saying that risks to humanity should be taken seriously.
The Pope's remarks came on a flight back to Rome from France, where he questioned Huang's commitment to safety despite Nvidia's recent launch of new security tools.
Huang has joined US President Donald Trump in rejecting calls for regulation and slowing down AI development following hacking incidents and warnings about existential risks. Trump called the concerns a 'hoax' and rejected any globalist control scheme.
Nvidia unveiled its security tools on Monday, including a system called Sentry that tracks agent behavior using the company's data processing unit chips. The tools were said to have prevented a high-profile hack of Hugging Face in July by OpenAI agents.