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Trump Calls Nvidia CEO Jensen Huang, Dismisses AI Safety Concerns as Hoax at Los Angeles Summit
Trump called Nvidia CEO Jensen Huang onstage at the All-In Summit, with speakerphone. Trump described AI safety slowdown warnings as a scam.
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Trump and Huang onstage
U.S. President Donald Trump called Nvidia CEO Jensen Huang while Huang was onstage at the All-In Summit in Los Angeles on Monday, and Trump used the live call to dismiss AI safety concerns as a “scam.”
““I'm telling you, it's all a hoax,” Trump said”
Trump told the audience, “It’s a hoax,” and said “The robots are not going to be taking over the world.”
Huang responded on speakerphone, “You’re right. We will never let that happen,” as applause erupted at the venue.
The call came after Anthropic CEO Dario Amodei urged the industry to slow the pace of AI model advances, a position that OpenAI CEO Sam Altman and SpaceX CEO Elon Musk publicly supported over the weekend.
In the same exchange, Trump said data centers are “oil for the next 20, 25 years,” and Huang agreed that the debate over slowing AI created a wrong either-or frame between “fast innovation” and “AI safety.”
Safety debate and market reaction
The onstage phone call sharpened a public split between leaders arguing for slower development and those rejecting the premise that AI poses an imminent threat to humanity.
WIRED reported that David Sacks wrote on X, “stop pretending that the motivation to slow down is purely altruistic,” while Trump said during a visit to Ireland, “We’re outpacing China in AI.”
In the same broader debate, Rishub Jain told WIRED, “AI progress is accelerating,” adding that “it poses more risks.”
Financially, the dispute spilled into trading, with Chosunbiz reporting that Nvidia shares fell 3.4% on the 14th as investors weighed the possibility that AI infrastructure spending could slow if development is delayed.
BigGo Finance also said Nvidia shares closed down more than 3% on Monday and that the broader semiconductor complex fell across the board after the call.
Who gets involved next
Beyond the All-In Summit, the debate over AI pace and safety is moving into high-profile meetings, with King Charles of England set to host AI sector leaders to discuss common principles for governing the technology.
“King Charles of England will this week host leaders from the major companies in the artificial intelligence sector”
Boursorama, citing Reuters, said King Charles will welcome leaders from Nvidia, Google DeepMind, OpenAI, and Anthropic, and also include the UKAI minister, Kanishka Narayan.
The same Reuters-based report said the meeting would address concerns raised after Anthropic CEO Dario Amodei said on Saturday that companies should slow the pace of AI model advances.
In parallel, WIRED described how the White House team told AI lab leaders that if they want to slow down the entire sector, they will have to do it on their own rather than relying on government action.
The stakes are framed as both safety and competition, with WIRED quoting Mike Johnson saying, “we will fall behind China, and that is a threat to all Americans,” while Trump argued, “whoever wins in AI, wins.”