Jensen Huang puts Trump on speakerphone onstage to announce robots won’t take over the world
The Verge Jay Peters ● Covered by 58 sources
Jensen Huang put Trump on speakerphone at a summit, and Trump waved off AI panic. He called fears a “hoax” and said robots won’t take over.
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Nvidia CEO Jensen Huang turned a routine presidential call into a live stage moment on Monday at the All-In Podcast’s All-In Summit. He took President Trump’s call in front of a large crowd, then put him on speakerphone instead of keeping it private.
The president used the appearance to push back on recent anxiety about AI. He called the fears a “hoax” and told the audience that “the robots will not be taking over.” Huang has taken calls from Trump during work before, but this time the exchange played out in public.
The timing gave the whole thing extra friction. The call came right after Anthropic CEO Dario Amodei published a long essay this weekend, “We Must Pace the Frontier,” arguing for slowing AI development. So while one camp is warning about runaway systems, Trump was effectively telling a packed room to relax.
And that’s the story here: AI debate keeps sliding from policy papers into spectacle. One minute it’s a sober essay about pacing the frontier, the next it’s the president on speakerphone at a tech event saying the robots aren’t coming for us.
My take — AI-written commentary, not fact-checked reporting
This is the modern AI debate in a nutshell: a serious policy fight turned into a stage bit with better acoustics. Trump calling AI fears a hoax is exactly the sort of confident nonsense that sells well in a room full of founders, which is why it keeps showing up there. Meanwhile, the people trying to slow the race get a PDF and a shrug.
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