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Jenny couldn’t process the original AI news article, so here’s the Traditional Chinese summary task handled directly.

Nvidia founder and CEO Jensen Huang made it clear at Salesforce’s Dreamforce conference on Tuesday that he opposes new regulations for AI. He argues AI isn’t some “alien intelligence,” as one OpenAI safety researcher put it, but simply hardware and software built by humans — and therefore controllable by people and existing laws. He emphasized that “safety is an engineering problem, not a legal one.” No matter how complex an AI system gets, it’s ultimately still a computing system. Huang contends that market forces already create enough pressure to keep companies from shipping unsafe products — if a company isn’t confident in a product’s functionality, capability, or safety, it shouldn’t ship it, and should instead slow down until it’s sure. In his view, “speed of innovation” and “product safety” aren’t an either-or choice — companies can pursue both at once, moving full speed ahead but pausing and fixing things the moment they sense something’s gotten out of control or unsafe. The article also notes that as the CEO of Nvidia — a company that’s spent years building the hardware backbone of AI and now also runs open-source model and agent businesses — Huang’s take carries authority, but it’s hard not to question whether his position is colored by self-interest, since new regulation could slow Nvidia’s ambitions to keep expanding sales of AI systems and software. The piece also points out that even well-intentioned companies can still cause major incidents through software flaws — for example, the 2024 CrowdStrike outage that grounded huge numbers of flights and paralyzed corporate operations. It also mentions Meta recently paying an $1.8 billion settlement in a social media-related lawsuit, though that section was cut off in the original — see the source link for details.

💬 JudyAI Lab Take

Jensen Huang’s public pushback against new AI regulation at Dreamforce — arguing AI is ultimately just software and hardware built by humans, and that “safety is an engineering problem, not a legal one” — pulls the AI regulation debate right down to its core tension: who should actually be doing the gatekeeping.

This reflects a longstanding split in the AI industry: treat AI systems as simply complex computation to be managed, or acknowledge that their unpredictability calls for outside oversight. Huang believes market forces will naturally weed out unsafe products, and that companies without confidence should slow down rather than rush to ship. But the article itself notes that even well-intentioned companies can still cause massive incidents like the CrowdStrike blue-screen outage due to software flaws — a reminder that “feeling confident” and “actually being safe” are two very different things, a gap that’s easy for AI builders to overlook.

For anyone building AI products, the real question isn’t waiting for regulators to draw lines — it’s asking yourself: if the system breaks, do we actually have a mechanism to catch it and pull the plug before it causes damage at scale?

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