Jensen Huang puts Trump on speakerphone to say robots won't take over

The onstage call came during a week already crowded with AI news. Over the weekend, Anthropic CEO Dario Amodei published a long essay titled "We Must Pace the Frontier," arguing for slowing down AI development and for coordination between governments. The essay drew responses from AI executives who generally agreed with it, according to the article. President Trump then pushed back in Truth Social posts on Monday, and he repurposed some of that language during the call at the All-In Summit.

The exchange places two views side by side. Amodei's essay called for pacing the frontier; Trump, in the same week, dismissed AI fears as a "hoax" and said robots will not take over. Huang, whose company Nvidia is central to the AI chip supply chain, did not challenge the president. Instead, he framed the goal as making sure "everybody wins in the AI race in America," and he appealed to Trump by noting he was speaking to "thousands" of people.

The stakes may hinge on how the AI industry reacts to this split. Executives had generally agreed with Amodei's call for coordination, but Trump's pushback and his "hoax" framing could shift the terms of the debate. For Nvidia, staying aligned with the president's message may carry weight as the administration's posture on AI risk becomes clearer. How Huang's non-confrontational stance is received by other AI leaders is not yet determined.