On Monday, President Donald Trump phoned into Nvidia Corp. (NASDAQ:NVDA) CEO Jensen Huang‘s on-stage session at the All-In Summit in Los Angeles and delivered a pro-AI message to the tech crowd.
Huang put Trump on speakerphone in front of the live audience, according to a video posted by a user on X.
Trump used the moment to dismiss growing anxiety over artificial intelligence’s societal risks. “The robots will not be taking over. The AI will not be taking over the rest of the world. The whole thing is a hoax,” he said.
He doubled down moments later, framing data centers as an economic boon rather than a threat.
“I’m telling you it’s all a hoax. The data centers are great. They make people wealthy. They make states wealthy. AI is bigger than the internet. These people are playing right into the hands of China. We’re not going to let that happen,” Trump said.
White House Says ‘Don’t Worry,’ AI Pros Say ‘Yes, Worry’
The comments arrive amid a broader White House campaign to downplay AI-safety warnings. Trump wrote on Truth Social that the U.S. already has “tremendous CRIMINAL and REGULATORY power” over AI companies and accused critics of running a “SICK conspiracy” against artificial intelligence and data centers, adding that China stood to benefit from the doubt.
Days earlier, while golfing in Ireland, he told reporters that “very negative forces” were exaggerating AI’s dangers and insisted the U.S. remains ahead of China in the technology race.
Trump and Huang enjoy an unusually direct line of communication. For example, Trump personally called Huang in May after reports surfaced that the Nvidia chief had been left off the administration’s China trip, prompting Huang to fly to Alaska and board Air Force One before the Beijing summit with President Xi Jinping.
Trump also rang Huang during an Nvidia all-hands meeting last month, an interruption employees could hear through Huang’s live microphone.
Huang, in turn, echoed Trump’s dismissiveness toward AI-doom scenarios in his own remarks, telling policymakers not to let “science fiction” fears drive regulation.
Meanwhile, Anthropic CEO Dario Amodei published a lengthy essay Saturday calling on the artificial intelligence industry to deliberately slow the pace of model-capability advances, arguing that without a coordinated pause, the technology could pose catastrophic risks within months. OpenAI CEO Sam Altman and Trump’s campaign backer Elon Musk supported elements of Amodei’s proposal.
And former Anthropic researcher Jacob Coxon accused AI companies on X of “gambling with our lives” in the pursuit of superintelligence.
The All-In Summit runs through Sept. 15 and features a lineup that includes Microsoft Corp. (NASDAQ:MSFT) CEO Satya Nadella and SpaceX (NASDAQ:SPCX) president Gwynne Shotwell.
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