Huang: AI requires onboarding and guardrails just like human hires
Jensen Huang · Jensen Huang & Arthur Mensch: Why Every Nation Needs Its Own AI Strategy · Mar 20, 2025 · at 9:20
Jensen Huang, founder and CEO of NVIDIA, frames AI as a digital workforce that organizations must actively shape and train rather than merely outsource.
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“We hire general purpose employees all the time. We hire them out of school. Some of them are more general purpose than others. Some of them are more intelligent than others. But once they become our employees, we decide to onboard them. Train them. Guardrail them. Evaluate them. Continuously improve them. We make the investment necessary to make general purpose intelligence into super intelligence that we could benefit from.”
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