Jensen Huang runs a company that makes chips for computers that pretend to think. This apparently qualifies him to advise the President on whether those computers will kill us all. The logic checks out if you've suffered a recent head injury.
Trump's ear is now Huang's. The most important topics in AI flow through a man who sells shovels during a gold rush. It's like asking the guy who invented the gas can about climate policy. Sure, he's technically involved, but maybe we're asking the wrong f*cking question.
Nvidia became the world's most valuable company by convincing everyone they need $30,000 graphics cards to run chatbots that can't count the letter R in strawberry. Huang wore a leather jacket to every keynote and somehow this translated into geopolitical influence. The simulation is getting lazy with its character development.
The AI safety debate now hinges on input from a CEO whose primary safety concern is whether his quarterly earnings will merely double or triple. Huang's position on AI risk mitigation: buy more GPUs. His take on alignment research: buy more GPUs. His thoughts on existential threat timelines: have you considered buying more GPUs.
Retail traders saw this headline and immediately opened positions on companies they can't spell. They're hedging against the robot apocalypse by longing the company building the robots. It's like buying stock in the asteroid before it hits Earth.
Trump picked his AI advisor the same way he picks everything else: whoever has the biggest number next to their name this week gets the job.
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