Fetching from the wire…
Policy2026-09-24 · source-backed
On the September 23 Ezra Klein Show, Huang went after Geoffrey Hinton's 10-20% societal-collapse estimate: "Just because it comes from a scientist doesn't make it scientific" (Axios). Separate interview from his Face the Nation remarks, and it ran the same day Amodei, Altman and Bengio were briefing the Security Council on exactly those risks. The chip supplier and his largest customers are now publicly disagreeing about whether catastrophic risk is real, which is an unusual place for a supply chain to fracture.
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