Trump Calls Nvidia CEO Jensen Huang Onstage, Dismisses AI Safety as a Hoax
During a live phone call to Nvidia CEO Jensen Huang at the All-In Summit in Los Angeles, President Donald Trump dismissed artificial intelligence safety concerns as a "hoax" and a "scam." Speaking on speakerphone for five minutes, Trump compared data centers to the "oil of the next 20, 25 years" and pledged his full support to the AI industry. He argued that opposition to AI development and data…
Key points
- President Trump called Nvidia CEO Jensen Huang onstage, labeling AI safety concerns a hoax and data centers the new oil.
- The call followed warnings from Anthropic's Dario Amodei, Sam Altman, and Elon Musk urging a slowdown in AI development.
- Nvidia's Jensen Huang defended the industry, arguing that future safety warnings lack empirical scientific grounding.
Trump's comments follow a joint weekend of caution from other prominent tech leaders. Anthropic CEO Dario Amodei published an essay warning of rapid AI risks and calling for a development slowdown, a sentiment echoed by OpenAI's Sam Altman and Elon Musk. In response, Huang defended the industry's trajectory, questioning the scientific basis of long-term safety predictions and noting that concerned companies are free to slow down their own progress if they choose.
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Trump calls Nvidia's Jensen Huang onstage, dismisses AI safety as a hoax
yahoo.com · 14 September 2026
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