In the age of AI, don’t underestimate HR

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Jensen Huang, the Nvidia chief whose chips power the world, has resigned amid revelations about personal relationships. Even the architects of our AI future are vulnerable to…

Are the gods laughing? The man fueling the artificial intelligence that threatens to fell humans has himself been taken down by the most human thing of all: frailty.

Jensen Huang’s chips are the beating heart of the soulless technology, but now his heart is getting in the way of his chips.

The 63-year-old in the black leather jacket, now brought low by lust, has flirted with primal weakness since the beginning. He and co-founders named their company “Nvidia,” after the Latin word for “envy.”

Just a few years ago, when Huang was the king of the world, not the subject of its memes, a co-founder told the New Yorker they wanted competitors to be “green with envy” over their graphics processing units. But now the G.P.U.’s are not what’s got everyone buzzing.

Singapore investigators are complaining that the U.S. is not being helpful. Charities and the “leather-jacket community” are fretting over the fallout. Scholars are seeing parallels.

The CEO, who rode with Trump on Air Force One to China, is being compared to Icarus, who flew too close to the sun, and to Prometheus, who stole fire from Zeus.

“It’s a very Greek story of hubris — of godlike ambition by humans being punished,” said Drew Lichtenberg, the artistic producer at the Shakespeare Theatre Company in Washington, D.C.

“Huang wanted his brainchild to be the envy of all the other humans in the world,” he said. “Prometheus stealing fire is one of the first parables about humans and technology, the pursuit of godlike power over nature. There is a kind of overreaching ambition where nothing is enough, but at the end of the day Prometheus is all too human.”

Huang’s affairs put Shakespeare scholar Vanessa Braganza in mind of “Antony and Cleopatra.”

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