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Jensen Huang Urges CMU Graduates to Lead the AI Era

He framed AI as a vast economic opening that will favor those who learn to use it.

Overview

  • Huang, who delivered Carnegie Mellon’s 128th commencement keynote Sunday, also received an honorary Doctor of Science and Technology.
  • Before the ceremony he met Robotics Institute students and spotlighted CMU’s early role in AI and robotics.
  • He described AI as driving the largest buildout of technology infrastructure in history, calling it a chance to reindustrialize America.
  • He said AI will help close the technology divide by bringing powerful computing to billions of people for the first time.
  • He told graduates that AI is unlikely to replace them but warned that those who use it well could outcompete them, while urging safeguards that advance capability and safety together.