Jensen Huang puts Trump on speakerphone onstage to announce robots won’t take over the world

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Nvidia CEO Jensen Huang took a live call from President Trump onstage at the All-In Summit, where Trump dismissed widespread AI safety concerns as a 'hoax' and declared 'the robots will not be taking over.' The moment staged a public, high-profile collision between the administration's bullish stance on AI and growing calls from industry leaders to slow development. The call came days after Anthropic CEO Dario Amodei published a widely read essay titled 'We Must Pace the Frontier,' arguing for coordinated government action to moderate AI development pace. Most AI executives who responded reportedly agreed with Amodei's concerns — a rare cross-lab alignment on caution. Trump spent Monday morning rebutting the essay on Truth Social before repeating those critiques live at the event. Huang, who has cultivated close ties with the Trump administration, did not push back. Instead he told Trump he was addressing 'thousands' of people and promised 'every industry, every company, every state, every people' would win in the AI race. Trump also claimed data centers are reviving economically declining communities without offering specifics. The episode illustrates a widening rift between the White House's permissive, anti-regulatory approach and a nascent cautionary consensus forming among frontier AI lab leaders — a tension likely to define near-term policy battles.