"We Don’t Need Any New Laws": Jensen Huang Splits with Amodei at Dreamforce
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On the same Dreamforce stage where Dario Amodei made his case for slowing AI down, Jensen Huang told the audience the industry needs no new laws. Marc Benioff, who interviewed both, later said the labs can set their own pace and must be held accountable.
September 16, 2026 - 3:20 am
Nvidia’s Jensen Huang and Salesforce’s Marc Benioff shake hands on stage at Dreamforce 2026
Credit: Salesforce
“We don’t need any new laws. We don’t need new regulations,” Nvidia chief executive Jensen Huang said on Tuesday, on the main stage of Salesforce’s Dreamforce conference in San Francisco.
Earlier in the same keynote, Anthropic chief executive Dario Amodei made his case for the industry to slow down , which he set out in an essay over the weekend. Salesforce chief executive Marc Benioff interviewed both men. Salesforce has published the full keynote on YouTube.
Benioff told the audience there were 10,000 people in the room and 10 million watching online.
Amodei: “let’s look at our own record”
Anthropic’s Dario Amodei speaks with Salesforce’s Marc Benioff among the audience at Dreamforce 2026
Credit: Salesforce
Benioff asked Amodei for his view on “the state of the AI industry and pacing”. Amodei answered with a car industry analogy. Another carmaker has a safety incident, he said, perhaps with its brakes, while your company believes it has the best safety record.
“Obviously it’s very tempting to attack your competitor and say these guys are unsafe, we’re safe. But I think the more responsible way to respond to it is to say, hey, first of all, let’s look at our own record. We may not have had this big high-profile incident, but I’m sure we’re not perfect.”
The next steps, he said, are to recommit to transparency and invest more in safety. Then the industry should agree standards for everyone, and finally there should be an international component.
That is the three-step plan in his essay. Anthropic has committed to the first step, Amodei said. On the others, it is “going to have a dialogue with the rest of the industry”.
“I think that’s the way to lead the industry forward, to set an example, to say that everyone can always be better,” he said.
Asked about his biggest surprise, Amodei said: “It’s been the pace of the progress, not just of the technology, but of the economic side of it.” Anthropic predicted how capable the models would become, he said, but not how fast the companies building them would grow.
Even if the technology were frozen in place, people would be using only about 5% or 10% of its possible value, Amodei said. His plan does not freeze anything, he added. “Pacing the Frontier is not doing that at all.”
Huang: “Run as fast as you can”
Huang walked around the theatre with Benioff as they talked. “We’re going through a new industrial revolution,” he said.
Benioff then asked him about “an incredible debate for the last day on pacing and safety”.
“Well, safety is paramount. In a lot of ways, it’s job one. However, safety is an engineering problem. We’re developing software after all. We’re developing computing systems after all.”
Companies first need safe test environments for these systems, Huang said, and then they must test their products. “If you build a product or a service and you’re not confident in its functionality, capability, or safety, then don’t release it.”
“You pace yourself until you are confident you’re releasing something that the market would appreciate. The market forces are already there,” he concluded.