Trump calls Nvidia's CEO onstage, mocks AI danger fears

Jensen Huang was on stage at a tech conference Monday when his phone rang. It was President Trump. Huang put him on speaker for the whole crowd. Trump immediately said fears about AI are "a hoax." He said robots aren't taking over the world. Huang pushed back, live, telling Trump the industry isn't slowing down.

This wasn't a random call. Days earlier, Anthropic's CEO Dario Amodei published an essay urging AI companies to slow down. Other tech leaders echoed him. Trump had already rejected that idea once this week. Monday's call went further. He mocked the whole idea in front of a live audience, with Nvidia's CEO standing right next to him. The message to the industry was blunt. Don't expect Washington to slow anyone down.

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Will this posture turn into real policy? A president dismissing safety concerns as a hoax is one thing. Blocking any future federal AI safety rules is another. Data centers, chips, and power all still need a policy framework eventually. For now, the administration is signaling it wants speed, not caution.