【中英双语】黄仁勋嘉宾演讲 - CMU卡耐基梅隆大学2026毕业典礼

Thank you for your many contributions to advancing science and technology and for many ways your leadership continues to expand human possibility and shape a better future for people around the

world. And now, please join me in

world. And now, please join me in extending a warm welcome to Jensen Wong, our K keynote speaker, President Jihunan, members of the board

of trustees, faculty, distinguished guests, proud parents and families, and above all the Carnegie Melon class of 2026.

Thank you for this extraordinary honor.

It is deeply meaningful to be here with Carnegie Melon, one of the world's great universities and one of the rare places

that invents the future.

Today is a day of pride and joy. A dream

come true for you. But not only for you.

Your families, teachers, mentors, and friends helped carry you here. Before we

talk about the future, thank them.

This day belongs to them, too.

Graduates, please stand up. Stand with me. Come on,

you guys. Especially

turn to your mothers and wish them a happy Mother's Day.

For you, this is another step in your life. But

for her, this is a dream come true.

Please sit down.

CMU students like robots take instructions one at a time to see your graduate to see you.

Okay, everybody focus.

I have something important to tell you.

to see you graduate from one of the world's great institutions. This is her moment too.

My mom and dad are deeply proud of me as well. My journey is their journey.

well. My journey is their journey.

I am their dream come true.

And their dream was the American dream.

Like many in this audience, I'm a first generation immigrant.

My father had a dream to raise his family in America. When I was 9 years old, he sent my older brother and me to the United States. We ended up at a

Baptist boarding school in Onita, Kentucky, Coal Country, a town of a few hundred people.

Two years later, my parents left everything behind to join us.

They came with little to nothing. My

father was a chemical engineer. My

mother worked as a maid at a Catholic school. She woke me up at 4:00 a.m. in

school. She woke me up at 4:00 a.m. in

the morning to deliver newspapers.

My older brother got me a job as a dishwasher at Denny's, which at the time felt like a major career advancement.

That was my view of America.

Not easy, but full of opportunities.

Not a guarantee, but a chance. My

parents came here because they believed America could give their children a chance.

How can we not be romantic about America? I went to Oregon State

America? I went to Oregon State University.

I met my wife, Lori, when I was 17 years old. I was the youngest school, youngest

old. I was the youngest school, youngest kid in school. We were sophomore lab partners.

She was 19, an older woman.

I beat out 250 other boys in class and won her heart.

We've now been married for 40 years.

We have two two amazing children, both working at NVIDIA.

When I was 30, I started Nvidia with Chris Malikowski and Curtis Pring, two amazing computer scientists. We wanted

to build a new kind of computer, one that could solve problems ordinary computers could not. We had absolutely no idea how to build a company, raise

money, or run Nvidia.

I just thought, how hard could it be?

It turns out it is super hard.

Our first technology didn't even work.

We ran out of We nearly ran out of money. At one point, I had to fly to

money. At one point, I had to fly to Japan and explain to Sega's CEO that the technology they contracted us to build

would not work.

Asked to be released from a contract we could not complete and then asked that they still pay us.

Without the money, Nvidia would vaporize. It was embarrassing,

vaporize. It was embarrassing, humiliating, and one of the hardest things I have ever done. And Sega CEO Madrasan

said yes.

I learned early that being CEO is not about power, but the responsibility that comes with keeping the company

alive. And that honesty and humility can

alive. And that honesty and humility can be met with generosity and kindness even in business.

We used the money to reset the company and out of desperation we invented new ways of designing chips and computers that we still use today. For 33 years,

Nvidia had reinvented itself over and over again. Each time asking, "How hard

over again. Each time asking, "How hard can it be?"

And each time learning, "It's harder than we thought."

But through those experiences, we learn never to see failure as the opposite of success.

Each failure is just another learning moment, a humility moment, a character strengthening moment. The resilience

strengthening moment. The resilience forged through setbacks is what gives you the strength to go again.

Today, I am one of the longest serving CEOs in technology.

And Vidia, the body of work I share with 45,000 extraordinary colleagues is my life's work.

Now it's your time to realize your dreams. And the timing could not be more perfect.

My career started at the beginning of the PC revolution.

Your career starts at the beginning of the AI revolution.

I cannot imagine a more exciting time to work to begin your life's work. AI

started right here at Carnegie Melon.

I've heard countless AI jokes in the last 24 hours here in Carnegie Melon.

Carnegie Carnegie Melon is one of the true birthplaces of artificial intelligence and robotics. In the 1950s, researchers here created the logic

theorist, widely recognized and considered the first AI computer program. In 1979, Carnegie Melon founded

program. In 1979, Carnegie Melon founded the robotics institute. This morning I visited This morning I visited with Robo Club,

the first academic institute devoted entirely to robotics. Artificial

intelligence has gone on now to reinvent computing completely. I have lived

computing completely. I have lived through every major computing platform shift. mainframes, PCs, the internet,

shift. mainframes, PCs, the internet, mobile and cloud. Each wave built on the

one before. Each expanded access, each

one before. Each expanded access, each transformed industries and society. But

what is about to happen now is bigger than anything before.

Computing is undergoing a complete reset. Not since modern computing was

reset. Not since modern computing was first invented.

For 60 years, computing worked the same way. Humans wrote software. Computers

way. Humans wrote software. Computers

executed instructions.

That paradigm is over.

Artificial intelligence has reinvented computing. from human coding to machine

computing. from human coding to machine learning. From software running on CPUs

learning. From software running on CPUs to neuronet networks running on GPUs and from following instructions to understanding,

reasoning, planning and using tools, a new industry has emerged to manufacture

intelligence at scale because intelligence is foundational to every industry.

Every industry will change.

For many, AI creates uncertainty.

People see AI writing software, generating images, driving cars, and naturally wonder what happens next? Will

jobs disappear? Will people be left behind? Will this technology become too

behind? Will this technology become too powerful?

Every major technological revolution in history created fear alongside opportunity.

When society engages technology openly, responsibly and optimistically, we expand human potential

far more than we diminish it. So first

and above all, we must be cleareyed.

Artificial intelligence, the automation of understanding, reasoning, and problem solving is one of the most powerful technologies humanity

has ever created.

And like every transformative technology before it, it will bring both great promise and real risks.

The responsibility of our generation is not only to advance AI but to advance it wisely.

Scientists and engineers have a profound responsibility to advance AI capabilities and AI safety together.

Policymakers Policymakers have a responsibility to create thoughtful guard rails that protect society while still allowing innovation,

discovery, and progress to move forward.

History shows that societies that retreat from technology do not stop progress.

They only surrender the opportunity to shape it and to benefit from it. So the

answer is not to fear the future. The

answer is to guide it wisely, build it responsibly and ensure that it benefits reach as many people as possible. We

should not teach fear of the future. We

should engage it with optimism, responsibility and ambition.

Only a fraction of the people in the world know how to write software.

Now anyone can ask AI to build something useful.

A shopkeeper can create a website and grow a business. A carpenter can design a kitchen and offer new services to

clients. The AI writes the code.

clients. The AI writes the code.

Everyone is now a programmer.

For the first time, the power of computing and intelligence can truly reach everyone and close the technology divide. The first time and like

divide. The first time and like electricity and the internet before it.

AI will require trillions of dollars of infrastructure investment.

This is the largest technology infrastructure buildout in human history and a once- ina generation opportunity

to reindustrialize America and restore the nation's capacity to build.

To support AI, America will build chip factories, computer factories, data centers, and advanced manufacturing facilities across the country.

AI gives America the opportunity to build again.

Electricians, plumbers, iron workers, technicians builders this is your time.

AI is not just creating a new computing industry. It is creating a new

industry. It is creating a new industrial era. Powering this new

industrial era. Powering this new infrastructure will require enormous amounts of energy.

But it is also driving one of the largest investments in energy infrastructure in generations, modernizing the grid, expanding power

generation, and accelerating sustainable energy.

And yes, AI will change every job.

But the task and the purpose of a job are not the same.

Many tasks will be automated. Some jobs

will disappear.

But many new jobs and entire new industries will be created. Software

coding tasks are increasingly automated.

But using AI, software engineers can expand the search for solutions, allowing them to tackle far more ambitious challenges.

Analyzing radiology scans is increasingly automated. But using AI,

increasingly automated. But using AI, radiologists are elevated to better diagnose disease and care for patients.

AI does not replace human purpose. It

amplifies human capability.

That is why even as AI writes more code and analyze more scans, demand for software engineers and radiologists continue to grow.

AI is not likely to replace you, but someone using AI better than you might.

So, a good thought experiment is this.

Do we want our children to be supercharged by AI or be left behind by those who are?

No parent wants their ch their child left behind. So let us build AI safely.

left behind. So let us build AI safely.

Let us also imagine an optimistic future, one our children are excited to be part of, inspired to help build.

So, we can and must do four things at once.

Advance safely, create thoughtful policies, make AI broadly accessible, and encourage everyone to engage.

Everyone should have AI.

Opportunity should not belong only to the people who can code. Class of 2026, you are entering the world at an extraordinary moment. A new industry is

extraordinary moment. A new industry is being born. A new era of science and

being born. A new era of science and discovery is beginning. AI is excel will accelerate the expansion of human knowledge and help solve problems once

beyond our reach.

We have the opportunity to close the technology divide and bring the power of computing and intelligence to billions of people for the very first time. To

reindustrialize America and restore our capacity to build and to help create a future more abundant, more capable, and more hopeful than the world you

inherited.

No generation has entered the world with more powerful tools or greater opportunities than you. We

are all standing at the same starting line.

This is your moment to help shape what comes next.

So run, don't walk.

Carnegie Melon has a motto I love.

My heart is in the work.

So, put your heart in the work. Build

something worthy of your education, your potential, and the people who believed in you long before the world did. Congratulations,

Carnegie Melon class of 2026. Heat.

Heat.