Huang on the record: doom talk is "irresponsible" — and this time the targets are Musk and Hinton
From the AI digest for 2026-10-04
What happened: Jensen Huang (via LeCun RT ~9:28 AM ET): "it's irresponsible for Elon Musk and Geoffrey Hinton to talk about AI doom and humans being a 'bootloader' for AI. That 10% chance is not grounded in science. It's not grounded in research… Just because it comes from a scientist doesn't make it scientific… Those predictions are hurtful. Don't think for a second just because you're an alarmist that you're doing a social good. Be evidence-based. Be scientific. Do the science."
What's genuinely new: the third and sharpest entry in Huang's fall-long denial ledger (Sep 15: claims "made up" → Sep 20: "0%" → Oct 4: "irresponsible," aimed at named people) — and the target list is itself the story: Musk is a White House Accord co-signatory Huang rebukes while the Accord's text remains unpublished, and Hinton is the Nobel-laureate alarmist wing. LeCun amplifying it keeps the anti-pacing coalition's shape visible. Home thread: ai topic's risk-governance denial ledger; this is the X layer of that entry.
Links: LeCun RT