Nvidia CEO Calls For Legal Regulations and Social Norms in AI Development

JAKARTA - Nvidia Corp Chief Executive Officer, Jensen Huang, said on Tuesday, January 24 that the burgeoning artificial intelligence sector will create sophisticated tools that require legal regulations and social norms that have not yet been worked out.

Huang is one of the most prominent figures in artificial intelligence as Nvidia chips are widely used in the field, including in the supercomputer Microsoft Corp is building for startup OpenAI, where Microsoft said Monday, January 23 it was making billions of dollars. Investment from ChatGPT.

Huang was speaking at an event in Stockholm, where officials said last Tuesday they were upgrading Sweden's fastest supercomputer using tools from Nvidia to develop what is known as a large language model fluent in Swedish.

"Remember, if you take a step back and think of all the things in life that are convenient, possible or beautiful to society, that also may have potential harm," Huang said, quoted by Reuters.

Lawmakers like Ted Lieu, a California Democrat in the US House of Representatives, have called for the creation of a US federal agency that would regulate AI. In an opinion piece in the New York Times on Monday, Lieu argued that systems such as facial recognition used by law enforcement agencies may be able to misidentify innocent people from minority groups.

Huang said engineering standards bodies need to set standards for building safe AI systems, similar to how medical bodies set rules for safe medical practice. But he also said laws and social norms will play a key role for AI.

"What are the social norms for using it? What are the legal norms for using it should be developed," Huang said. "Things are evolving now. The fact that we are all talking about it puts us in a much better place to end up in a good place eventually."