{"id":3827,"date":"2025-06-13T11:34:30","date_gmt":"2025-06-13T15:34:30","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/www.viewworld.org\/?p=3827"},"modified":"2025-06-13T11:34:31","modified_gmt":"2025-06-13T15:34:31","slug":"nvidia-chief-calls-ai-the-greatest-equalizer-but-warns-europe-risks-falling-behind","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/www.viewworld.org\/?p=3827","title":{"rendered":"Nvidia chief calls AI \u2018the greatest equalizer\u2019 \u2014 but warns Europe risks falling behind"},"content":{"rendered":"\n

PARIS (AP) \u2014 Will artificial intelligence<\/a> save humanity \u2014 or destroy it? Lift up the world\u2019s poorest \u2014 or tighten the grip of a tech elite?<\/p>\n\n\n\n

Jensen Huang<\/a> \u2014 the global chip tycoon widely predicted to become one of the world\u2019s first trillionaires \u2014 offered his answer on Wednesday: neither dystopia nor domination. AI, he said, is a tool for liberation.<\/p>\n\n\n\n

Wearing his signature biker jacket and mobbed by fans for selfies, the Nvidia<\/a> CEO cut the figure of a tech rockstar as he took the stage at VivaTech in Paris.<\/p>\n\n\n\n

\u201cAI is the greatest equalizer of people the world has ever created,\u201d Huang said, kicking off one of Europe\u2019s biggest technology industry fairs.<\/p>\n\n\n\n

Huang\u2019s core argument: AI can level the playing field, not tilt it. Critics argue Nvidia\u2019s dominance risks concentrating power in the hands of a few. But Huang insists the opposite \u2014 that by slashing computing costs and expanding access, \u201cwe\u2019re democratizing intelligence\u201d for startups and nations alike.<\/p>\n\n\n\n

But beyond the sheeny optics, Nvidia used the Paris summit to unveil a wave of infrastructure announcements across Europe, signaling a dramatic expansion of the AI chipmaker\u2019s physical and strategic footprint on the continent.<\/p>\n\n\n\n

In France, the company is deploying 18,000 of its new Blackwell chips with startup Mistral AI<\/a>. In Germany, it\u2019s building an industrial AI cloud to support manufacturers. Similar rollouts are underway in Italy, Spain, Finland and the U.K., including a new AI lab in Britain.<\/p>\n\n\n\n

Other announcements include a partnership with AI startup Perplexity<\/a> to bring sovereign AI models to European publishers and telecoms, a new cloud platform with Mistral AI, and work with BMW and Mercedes-Benz to train AI-powered robots for use in auto plants.<\/p>\n\n\n\n

The announcements underscore how central AI infrastructure has become to global strategy \u2014 and how Nvidia, now the world\u2019s most valuable chipmaker, is positioning itself as the engine behind it.<\/p>\n\n\n\n

As the company rolls out ever more powerful systems, critics warn the model risks creating a new kind of \u201ctechnological priesthood\u201d \u2014 one in which only the wealthiest companies or governments can afford the compute power, energy, and elite engineering talent required to participate. That, they argue, could choke the bottom-up innovation that built the tech industry in the first place.<\/p>\n\n\n\n

Huang pushed back. \u201cThrough the velocity of our innovation, we democratize,\u201d he said, responding to a question by The Associated Press. \u201cWe lower the cost of access to technology.\u201d<\/p>\n\n\n\n

As Huang put it, these factories \u201creason,\u201d \u201cplan,\u201d and \u201cspend a lot of time talking to\u201d themselves, powering everything from ChatGPT<\/a> to autonomous vehicles and diagnostics.<\/p>\n\n\n\n

But some critics warn that without guardrails, such all-seeing, self-reinforcing systems could go the way of Skynet in \u201c The Terminator<\/a> \u201d movie \u2014 vast intelligence engines that outpace human control.<\/p>\n\n\n\n

To that, Huang offers a counter-model: layered AI governance by design. \u201cIn the future,\u201d he said, \u201cthe AI that is doing the task is going to be surrounded by 70 or 80 other AIs that are supervising it, observing it, guarding it, ensuring that it doesn\u2019t go off the rails.\u201d<\/p>\n\n\n\n

He likened the moment to a new industrial revolution. Just as electricity transformed the last one, Huang said, AI will power the next \u2014 and that means every country needs a national intelligence infrastructure. That\u2019s why, he explained, he\u2019s been crisscrossing the globe meeting heads of state.<\/p>\n\n\n\n

\u201cThey all want AI to be part of their infrastructure,\u201d he said. \u201cThey want AI to be a growth manufacturing industry for them.\u201d<\/p>\n\n\n\n

Europe, long praised for its leadership on digital rights, now finds itself at a crossroads. As Brussels pushes forward with world-first AI regulations, some warn that over-caution could cost the bloc its place in the global race. With the U.S. and China surging ahead and most major AI firms based elsewhere, the risk isn\u2019t just falling behind \u2014 it\u2019s becoming irrelevant.<\/p>\n\n\n\n

Huang has a different vision: sovereign AI. Not isolation, but autonomy \u2014 building national AI systems aligned with local values, independent of foreign tech giants.<\/p>\n\n\n\n

\u201cThe data belongs to you,\u201d Huang said. \u201cIt belongs to your people, your country… your culture, your history, your common sense.\u201d<\/p>\n\n\n\n

But fears over AI misuse remain potent \u2014 from surveillance and deepfake propaganda to job losses and algorithmic discrimination. Huang doesn\u2019t deny the risks. But he insists the technology can be kept in check \u2014 by itself.<\/p>\n\n\n\n

The VivaTech event was part of Huang\u2019s broader European tour. He had already appeared at London Tech Week and is scheduled to visit Germany. In Paris, he joined French President Emmanuel Macron and Mistral AI CEO Arthur Mensch to reinforce his message that AI is now a national priority.<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"

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