Pope Leo XIV says AI doom concerns are not ‘fake news’ and rebukes Nvidia’s Jensen Huang for opposing regulation

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• Huang’s reply (Fortune interview, Oct 14, 2026): ‘He’s asking all the right questions, and he’s thinking about all the right issues’; ‘I’m not exactly sure what was intended, but the facts are that few are doing as much in advancing AI safety in a way that helps the entire industry as we are’; ‘We all care about the same thing, which is an optimistic future where this technology has great positive impact in society while doing it with great responsibility, safety, and accountability’
• Same London trip, Bloomberg interview with Emily Chang (video Oct 14): asked whether he would stop supplying chips to a developer building unsafe AI, Huang said ‘It’s a hypothetical, but yes … But before you do so, you would have a conversation. We don’t run other people’s companies, and there’s a limit to the judgment we apply to other companies’ use of our technology. Our technology is general-purpose.’ Bloomberg notes he still does not think current concern about AI is warranted
• Same Fortune interview series (London, Oct 14): Huang said ‘I’m willing to accept no incidents of cybersecurity’, argued agents should be sealed in secure containers like browser sandboxes, called the technology ‘completely in our control’, and said people who believe AI will end civilisation ‘really ought to stop working on it’
• Occasion: in-flight press conference returning from France, Sept 28, 2026 (Reuters, America Magazine)
• Quote: ‘I do think that the concerns raised by many of the experts, specialists in AI, should be taken seriously. I don’t think that that is fake news, as some have said.’
• On Huang: he had read that Nvidia’s head announced a way to insert guardrails into AI models, but ‘He’s the same one, however, that says there should be no limits placed and no government regulation.’
• The Pope said he is not ‘in panic mode’ but ‘we can’t just sit back and pretend that nothing is going to happen’; he called for AI experts, political leaders and social organizations to work together so AI ‘does not get to a point where it could destroy humanity’ (America Magazine)
• CBS Sunday Morning interview with Jo Ling Kent (aired Sept 20, 2026): Huang said there is ‘0% chance’ 2030 will be ‘the end of the world’, called extinction warnings ‘not grounded in science’ and scaring people ‘irresponsible’, said existing liability law is enough, and agreed with Trump that the industry needs no new guardrails