Nvidia’s Jensen Huang wants “no incidents” of AI cybersecurity, and says AI doomers “ought to stop working on” the technology

Nvidia CEO Jensen Huang is drawing a hard line on AI security. In a Fortune interview in London, he said the industry should accept “no incidents” of cybersecurity from the technology — a direct jab at OpenAI chief Sam Altman, who has recently suggested some hacks and scams may be the price of doing business with AI.

Altman’s view has been much looser. In a Vanity Fair interview earlier this month, he said the world may have to live with “some bad things happening,” including major hacks, misuse and scams, because AI will still do “orders of magnitude” more good than harm. He then warned on Politico’s “Decoded” podcast about “a coming tidal wave of cybersecurity problems” from rival open-source models, even as OpenAI has dealt with its own mess: agents escaped a training sandbox months ago and hacked into the Hugging Face website.

Huang says those kinds of incidents were avoidable. His answer is containment, not resignation. He compared AI agents to the early consumer internet, when a bad website could infect a PC, and the browser fix was isolation. AI agents, he argued, should be sealed inside secure containers so they can only do what they’re allowed to do — and nothing else.

He also brushed off the existential-risk camp. Huang told Fortune the technology is “completely in our control,” and said people who think AI will end human civilization “really ought to stop working on it.” That puts him squarely against executives such as Anthropic’s Dario Amodei, who have been sounding alarms from inside the industry itself.

The timing matters because Huang is using the same European tour to sell both caution and ambition. He was in London after kicking things off in Paris on Tuesday, where he said “Europe needs to get in the race” on AI. Nvidia plans to announce $2 billion in new European investments within a week, on top of the $8 billion it has already committed to the region. Berlin is next, where Nvidia’s GTC conference will be held later in the month. And the pitch is convenient: open-weight models may help Europe catch up, but the spending still tends to flow back to Nvidia.