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- Jensen Huang put President Trump on speakerphone onstage at the All-In Podcast's All-In Summit on Monday, telling the president he was speaking to "thousands" of people.
- Trump dismissed recent AI development fears as a "hoax" and told the crowd that "the robots will not be taking over."
- The call came after Anthropic CEO Dario Amodei published a weekend essay titled "We Must Pace the Frontier" calling for slowing AI development and coordination between governments, which other AI executives generally agreed with.
- Trump also told attendees that data centers had turned communities that would have been "dying" into ones that were "really wealthy," without providing specifics.
- Huang did not push back on Trump's remarks, instead saying Nvidia would "make sure that everybody wins in the AI race in America. Every industry, every company, every state, every people."
- Trump had already pushed back against AI safety concerns in Truth Social posts earlier Monday, material he then repurposed onstage.
Why it matters: The episode crystallizes a split between two of AI's most powerful voices: Anthropic's CEO quietly published an essay pleading for the industry to slow down and coordinate with governments, while Nvidia's CEO handed the microphone — literally — to a president who publicly called those same fears a hoax. With Nvidia controlling the chips that make frontier AI possible, the absence of public pushback from Huang is the story: the compute supplier is not contradicting the White House's dismissals.
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