Trump calls Nvidia's Jensen Huang live on stage, says AI safety concerns are a ‘hoax’

US President Donald Trump called Nvidia CEO Jensen Huang live on stage at the All-In Summit in Los Angeles on Monday, using the roughly five-minute conversation to dismiss growing concerns over AI safety and argue that the US cannot afford to slow down its AI race with China.

Huang was handed a foldable phone during the event and put Trump on speakerphone for the audience.

“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,” Trump said during the call.


Trump said critics of AI development were “playing right into the hands” of people who do not want to see the technology advance, including China and political opponents.

Huang appeared to agree with Trump's position.

“We’re going to make sure that everybody wins in the AI race in America. Every industry, every company, every state, every people,” the Nvidia CEO told Trump.

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The exchange came as the debate over how — and whether — AI development should be regulated has intensified in the US.

Anthropic CEO Dario Amodei has called for stronger safeguards around advanced AI models, including independent audits of the most powerful systems. His proposal was endorsed by other technology executives, including OpenAI CEO Sam Altman and xAI chief Elon Musk.

The push for safeguards comes amid growing concerns among AI researchers about the potential risks posed by increasingly powerful systems. Anthropic researcher Jacob Coxon said last week that he had resigned in part because people building AI “earnestly believe that it could kill us all by the end of the decade,” Reuters reported.

Trump has pushed back against calls for additional regulation. In a post on Truth Social on Monday, he said the only “guardrails” AI needs are a “strong and smart” president and argued that casting doubt on AI development would benefit China.

Vice President JD Vance also expressed scepticism about AI companies seeking government regulation, saying he found it “weird” that frontier AI companies were asking the government to regulate them.

Trump also used the call with Huang to praise the rapid expansion of AI data centres, describing them as “the oil of the next 20, 25 years” and saying they make people and states wealthy.

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Huang had been discussing AI safety at the summit before Trump's call came in. He said companies could voluntarily “pause” or “pace” AI development if they believed their technology was getting out of control.

US House Speaker Mike Johnson said Trump could meet AI executives this week or early next week to discuss the industry's responsibility for safety and what role, if any, the government should play.

The Trump administration is also locked in a dispute with Anthropic over the use of its AI models. The Defence Department has restricted the company from certain military contracts after Anthropic refused to allow its Claude models to be used for domestic surveillance or autonomous weapons.