Trump Calls Huang, Says AI Fears 'All a Hoax'

The pushback from political and business leaders against AI slowdown calls comes as frontier AI labs' bosses warned over the weekend about the technology's risks. Trump's call to Nvidia CEO Jensen Huang during a live panel, and China's foreign ministry labeling those warnings "fear-mongering," suggest elite opinion is splitting from the labs' cautionary stance. The Wall Street Journal noted that talk of AI's "potential role in destroying humanity hurt some stocks and helped others," underscoring that the debate has concrete market effects.

At the same time, public sentiment is moving the other way. Gallup reported that the share of US workers fearing technology taking their jobs rose 7 percentage points in the past year. The gap between official reassurance and worker anxiety may become a fault line for policy and corporate messaging. How far the US-China detente progresses, which the article describes as looking slim, could also shape how much room AI companies have to set their own pace.