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Jensen Huang puts Trump on speakerphone at AI summit to address robot fears

Nvidia CEO Jensen Huang placed a live call from President Donald Trump on speakerphone during the All-In Summit, addressing widespread anxieties about artificial intelligence. Trump dismissed recent concerns about AI risks as a "hoax" and assured the audience that robots would not take over the world. This public intervention occurred shortly after Anthropic CEO Dario Amodei published an essay…

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  • Jensen Huang put President Trump on speakerphone at the All-In Summit to address AI fears.
  • Trump called AI risks a "hoax" and stated robots will not take over the world.
  • The call followed Dario Amodei's essay urging slower AI development and government coordination.

While Amodei and other executives generally supported pacing the frontier, Trump used the platform to counter these views, emphasizing the economic benefits of AI infrastructure. He claimed that data centers are transforming struggling communities into wealthy ones, though he did not provide specific data to support this assertion. Huang, present on stage, aligned with the administration’s optimistic stance, stating that the goal is to ensure every industry, company, and state benefits from the AI race in America.

The event highlighted the growing intersection of high-level political rhetoric and AI industry developments. By involving the President directly in a tech conference, the moment underscored the political weight of AI policy and the administration's push to frame AI as an unambiguous economic positive rather than a potential existential risk.

Full story from The Verge AI · by Jay Peters Open source ↗

Jensen Huang puts Trump on speakerphone onstage to announce robots won’t take over the world

The Verge AI · 14 September 2026

Nvidia CEO Jensen Huang took a call from President Trump on Monday while onstage at the All-In Podcast’s All-In Summit. It’s not the first time Huang has taken a call from the president during work, but this time he put Trump on speakerphone before a big crowd.

Jensen Huang puts Trump on speakerphone onstage to announce robots won’t take over the world

Trump told attendees at the All-In Summit that ‘the robots will not be taking over’ from the Nvidia’s CEO phone.

During the call, the president launched into his take on recent fears about AI development, which he called a “hoax,” and told the crowd that “the robots will not be taking over.”

It’s already a frothy week for AI news. The call with the president followed Anthropic CEO Dario Amodei’s long essay published this weekend titled “We Must Pace the Frontier” where he argued for slowing down AI development and coordination between governments. The essay sparked many responses from AI executives, who generally agreed. But Trump pushed back in Truth Social posts on Monday and repurposed some of what he said in those posts at the event. Heard onstage, Trump also commented on data centers, claiming there would be communities that would be “dying” without data centers but were now “really wealthy” (though without providing specifics).

Huang did not push back, saying instead that “We’re going to make sure that everybody wins in the AI race in America. Every industry, every company, every state, every people.” Huang also appealed to Trump by telling him he was speaking to “thousands” of people.

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