Trump calls Nvidia CEO Jensen Huang onstage, dismisses AI safety concerns as 'hoax'

Sep 14, 2026

During an onstage appearance at the All-In Summit in Los Angeles, Nvidia CEO Jensen Huang received a surprise phone call from President Donald Trump. Put on speakerphone, Trump dismissed existential AI safety concerns as a "hoax" and rejected calls for a coordinated industry slowdown, labeling such proposals a political or Chinese scheme. While Huang agreed that the U.S. must lead the AI race, he offered a more nuanced view on safety, praising whistleblowers but dismissing unscientific doomsday predictions.

Trump-Huang call at All-In Summit

▪Nvidia CEO Jensen Huang received a phone call from President Donald Trump on September 14, 2026, while speaking onstage at the All-In Summit in Los Angeles
▪President Donald Trump joked during the phone call that Nvidia CEO Jensen Huang can develop the most complex computer chip in the world but could not figure out how to use a speakerphone
▪Nvidia CEO Jensen Huang put President Donald Trump on speakerphone during the All-In Summit panel, allowing the audience to hear the conversation

AI doomerism dismissal

▪President Donald Trump asserted on Truth Social on September 14, 2026, that warnings about artificial intelligence taking over and destroying the world are a "hoax" and a "scam."
▪President Donald Trump dismissed concerns about artificial intelligence safety and predictions of an AI takeover as a "hoax" during his phone call with Nvidia CEO Jensen Huang
▪President Donald Trump stated on the phone call that the United States must proceed prudently with artificial intelligence but should not stop the industry's advancement

Anthropic slowdown proposal

▪President Donald Trump characterized calls to slow down artificial intelligence development as politically motivated or a Chinese scheme to stifle American progress
▪OpenAI CEO Sam Altman and SpaceX CEO Elon Musk publicly expressed agreement with Anthropic CEO Dario Amodei's proposal to slow the pace of artificial intelligence development
▪Anthropic CEO Dario Amodei published an essay over the weekend of September 12-13, 2026, titled "We Must Pace the Frontier," advocating for a coordinated slowdown in artificial intelligence development

Industry responses to safety concerns

▪Nvidia CEO Jensen Huang praised former Anthropic researcher Jacob Coxon for showing courage in whistleblowing, but rejected Coxon's scientific predictions about AI ending the world as ungrounded in science
▪Nvidia CEO Jensen Huang stated that artificial intelligence companies should pause or pace their development if they feel their own organizations are out of control
▪Nvidia CEO Jensen Huang previously suggested at a Goldman Sachs conference that cybersecurity alarmism is used to generate market demand and hysteria for security products

Data center economic benefits

▪A Gallup poll shows that seven in 10 Americans oppose local data center construction, with over 50% citing environmental concerns and 20% citing cost-of-living and quality-of-life impacts
▪President Donald Trump praised artificial intelligence data centers during the call, calling them the "oil of the next 20, 25 years" and claiming they bring wealth to states and communities

Debatable claims

▪AI developers should intentionally slow the pace of model capability improvements
▪Local communities should oppose the construction of artificial intelligence data centers