Nvidia CEO Jensen Huang said the chipmaker "absolutely must" collaborate with Chinese AI companies to monitor risks tied to what he called "potentially dangerous" technology.

Speaking to CNBC at a media briefing in London on Wednesday evening, Huang said, "We absolutely should work with each other so that we advance the technology safely." He added that dialogue is the way forward and that he has "dialogues with many of the researchers in China." "We ought to enhance the dialogue," he said. "The United States should do it... I advocated that the U.K. do the same thing."

The push for AI safety discussions has grown after researchers from labs including OpenAI and Anthropic urged a slowdown and warned of existential risks. OpenAI's Sam Altman and Anthropic's Dario Amodei have backed greater regulation, while Huang has become a prominent opponent of that view.

AI safety has become a key topic between the U.S. and Chinese governments. Before President Donald Trump's meeting with China's Xi Jinping, U.S. Treasury Secretary Scott Bessent discussed a possible "U.S.-China AI dialogue" with Chinese counterpart He Lifeng in September, including a channel for incidents "up to a national security level." A Chinese readout said Xi noted the two countries "may have competition, but they may cooperate even more" on AI, and can exchange views on risks and benefits and jointly prevent misuse.

Huang said the U.K. is positioned "in the world to be able to be a convener of many of these dialogues" because of its "intellectual capital."

Source: CNBC