Nvidia's Jensen Huang urges society to adapt to new norms in the age of AI

(16 Jun 2026)
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ASSOCIATED PRESS
Sherman, Texas - 16 June 2026
1. Nvidia CEO Jensen Huang listening to Josh Boak's question
2. SOUNDBITE (English) Josh Boak, The Associated Press: ++PARTIALLY COVERED++
"It does seem when I look at your history, that not everyone has your same appetite for risk. And I'm curious about that, because so many people coming in this moment, right, and you know this, because you get asked about it constantly, but like my Uber driver said, like, 'I think I should just have gone back and farmed.' What would you say to people who are really concerned that might get a chance to kind of like, don't get a change to engage with you, and yet are truly worried. Because they see risks and don't have an appetite?"
3. SOUNDBITE (English) Jensen Huang, CEO of Nvidia:
"I think the first thing I would do is I would engage AI. I would just open up ChatGPT. The first thing that I would, I would open up ChatGPT and go learn about what it is that this technology can do for them. However, with respect to the Uber driver, I just think it's incredible. That example's perfect. The Uber driver's job, Uber, was created out of the last industrial revolution, mobile cloud, the internet. The technologies that were created in the last 20, 30 years, Enabled Uber to exist without the internet, mobile, all of the data centers that were created to deal with all the automatic routing and all the recommendation systems. It's incredibly complicated computer science behind Uber. None of that would have been possible if Uber's = that Uber driver wouldn't be possible without all of that. And so what I would tell that Uber drivers, just take a moment and observe your current condition and the opportunities that it's created. Well, this next one's just going to create new opportunity. You're not exactly sure what it is yet, but it's going to be new opportunities."
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STORYLINE:
Nvidia CEO Jensen Huang — whose work helped enable artificial intelligence — is stressing in an Associated Press interview that society has no choice but to change in the advent of AI.

Huang has been optimistic about the technology’s potential to rapidly change society, creating faster economic growth and more scientific breakthroughs.

But as the head of a computer chip company now developing AI systems, Huang has felt obligated to respond to critics who warn of job losses and threats to humanity itself.

“We need to create new social norms,” Huang said in an interview Tuesday. “I would advocate that everybody use AI. Just go engage it.”

AP Video by Haven Daley and Kendria LaFleur