Co-Founder, Chief Executive Officer, President & Director, NVIDIA
Jensen Huang: AI’s impact will be ‘largely wonderful’
Nvidia CEO Jensen Huang praises A.I.’s accessibility to all and predicts its impacts on the workplace on ‘The Will Cain Show.’ #fox #foxnews #media #breakingnews #us #usa #new #news #breaking #thewillcainshow #jensenhuang #huang #nvidia #artificialintelligence #ai #technology #innovation #futureofwork #workplace #automation #machinelearning #generativeai #business #leadership #techindustry #digitaltransformation #productivity #economy
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About Jensen Huang
Jensen Huang, CEO of Nvidia, has been active in public appearances and keynote speeches in mid-2026, focusing on the rollout of new hardware and his views on the societal and economic impact of artificial intelligence. At Computex 2026 in Taipei, Huang announced the Vera Rubin architecture for data centers, which he described as being in full production and designed to run AI agents, as well as the RTX Spark superchip for Windows PCs, developed in partnership with Microsoft. He characterized the RTX Spark as a reinvention of the personal computer for the era of local AI agents. Huang also discussed Nvidia's partnership with Marvell on MVLink Fusion technology and highlighted Taiwan's role as "the epicenter of the world's technology ecosystem" and a strategic partner for the United States in diversifying supply chains. In interviews, Huang addressed the broader implications of AI. He stated that AI's impact will be "largely wonderful" but acknowledged areas requiring caution, comparing the need for new social norms to the advent of automobiles. He argued that AI is creating more software engineering jobs, citing a near-tripling of GitHub commits in early 2026, and described the notion of AI reducing jobs as "complete nonsense." Huang also called for the United States to become "pro-energy growth" again, asserting the country is "woefully behind in energy production" and that energy is foundational to AI infrastructure. He described the current period as the largest infrastructure buildout in history, with a trillion dollars being invested annually across energy, chips, data centers, and AI models.
Transcript (22 segments)
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Will0:05
Welcome back. Earlier this week I spoke with NVIDIA CEO Jensen Huang about the impact of AI on our future, what advice he has for young people in the global AI race, and of course why he always wears his iconic leather jacket. Here's our exclusive conversation.
Let's talk about AI for a moment. The predictions on our future under AI are all over the map. Dystopian, utopian. What is our future? If anybody knows, it has to be you.
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Jensen Huang0:37
It will be largely optimistic, largely wonderful. There are some cases we have to be extremely careful about, as with all great technology. If you look at the progress of technology over the years — electricity, internet, computers, automobile — you cannot accept that in each one of those cases there are situations and cases we have to be very careful about. As the creators of this technology, the industry has to be mindful, thoughtful, rigorous about building and advancing this technology properly. This is the first technology in my generation where we invented a new computer technology where it's easier to access than not. For example, the computer until now has been programmable for about 30 million people in the world. About 30 million of us know how to program it and apply it to some useful career. Now everybody in the world can program AI and go up to it and say, 'I would like to ask you to do something.' If you're not sure how to use AI, you tell the AI, 'I do not know how to use AI, tell me how to use AI. How do I write a program? Book a trip? Do research?' Because the technology divide tremendously, and that is something that is important to recognize.
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Will1:52
All those innovations you discuss throughout the Industrial Revolution, all the revolutions have been replacing largely human muscle. What we talked about with AI is replacing human brainpower, cognition. In that world, what is human value in a world under AI?
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Jensen Huang2:10
Let's use one example. I grew up in a generation where we did not have calculators. I don't remember the last time I did long division. We don't have to do algebra anymore because we don't do calculus. All of those things are now done by computers. Somehow everything that I grew up learning is now replaced by computers, and I still find myself insanely busy and working as hard as ever. The purpose of jobs have not fundamentally changed. The purpose of a doctor has not changed. It is to help diagnose disease, bring wellness. The tools they use to do that job will be different.
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Will2:48
I think what you are describing is creative destruction. At the advent of the car we could not have imagined what the next job would be. You would have looked at a bleak future, perhaps done some other job, a new job we could not yet envision. If anybody can envision what the next five or 15 years looks like, what skills will be valuable to humans?
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Jensen Huang3:09
In the next ten or 15 years we will be building a lot of infrastructure. The first thing that has happened is because of AI, the number of new trip plans and computer plans and data center plans that are being created around the country has grown tremendously. Electricians, construction, welders, technicians, networking engineers — all of these jobs are now in huge demand. We created half a billion of them, we will probably make more. The reindustrialization will change culture. We will have a lot more construction workers, a lot more builders and makers, which is fantastic.
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Will3:50
You don't buy into dystopian predictions about the destruction of human productivity?
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Jensen Huang3:55
I think some jobs will change, some will not be necessary. A whole lot more jobs will be created if it is the case that productivity creates more jobs. Just go back and look at history. 150 years of documented history that the Industrial Revolution as productivity enhanced, as it gained, as we created new technology that made it impossible for us not to do the things that we did yesterday, they created a lot of new things. Somebody was mentioning the other day that technology made it so you didn't have to do laundry, the laundromats. I don't remember that, but that job was replaced by washing machines. It was replaced by washing machines, but a whole new industry of consumer appliances was created.
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Will4:51
What do most people get wrong about where we are headed?
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Jensen Huang4:57
Let's see. First of all, they get wrong that the technology is hard to use. They get wrong that technology somehow is going to affect them instead of technology they should use themselves to elevate themselves. I think that the stories that have been told about AI, especially the jobs that are being replaced — for example radiology, or nursing, so many different types of examples — are proven completely opposite. The fact that AI was going to eliminate software engineers' jobs by now, that apparently nobody should go into software engineering because their jobs will be unnecessary, all of that is completely wrong. Imagine this: the question is, just — your child, who is a freshman in college, what advice do you give them about AI? To avoid it and ignore it? To run away from it, or to engage it? So of course you would advise they would engage it. Why is that? Because you love your children and you want them to succeed and you want them to use technology to elevate their capabilities.
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Will6:12
Why is it so important to the United States to win the so-called AI race?
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Jensen Huang6:18
I do not know that winning AI is a thing because AI will last a long time. There is a competition with no end. It's like a marathon that runs forever. I don't know what it means to win. However, we should absolutely lead in every single aspect of it. AI has a five-layered cake: energy is at the bottom, then the chips, infrastructure, data centers, then the AI model itself, then the applications on top. The five-layered cake. Most people only think about the AI models, but remember AI is an industry of an entire five layers. We have to make sure we lead in energy. Without energy, our country cannot grow, our economy cannot grow. The economy doesn't grow, national security is in peril, everything is in peril because the country has to grow. We need to have energy to grow.
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Will7:14
You told me a moment earlier you grew up in a town of 600 in Kentucky. Do you have any personal story? You are Taiwanese, do business with and connected in some ways to China, and you are American. What does that perspective give you in this necessity to lead the AI race?
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Jensen Huang7:33
Number one, this is new and important technology, national security foremost. Number two, with every technology transition, the United States should try to lead in any area where we can lead and where we are leading, continue to lead. Technology leadership is important to industry, economy, and national security. We can do both of those things: compete, protect our national security, enhance our economy, export as much as possible, bring back revenues, invest in reindustrialization of the United States, tax dollars, produce tax dollars, support our national security. All of that is one big flywheel and it can happen at the same time.
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Will8:15
I have to ask, why the black leather jacket?
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Jensen Huang8:20
Because it's the same color every day, it's always black.
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Will8:24
Fewer choices — the fewer choices you make in a day, the less diminished capacity?
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Jensen Huang8:32
I guess so. Every pair of pants in my closet is the same category, shirt is the same, every jacket is the same. It is one less choice. Lori bought it for me and it fits well.
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Will8:44
It looks good, it's not a fashion criticism. It's a curiosity about the consistency.
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Jensen Huang8:50
And because it is black, you don't have to decide if it matches.
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Will8:54
So you can save your willpower for other things.