The argument had been building before the phones came out. Over the weekend, Anthropic chief executive Dario Amodei urged the industry to “pace the frontier” and coordinate with governments, while former Anthropic researcher Jacob Coxon said people building advanced AI believed it could kill humanity by the end of the decade.¹

Then, on Monday, Jensen Huang’s appearance at the All-In Summit in Los Angeles was interrupted by a call from President Donald Trump. Put on speaker before a cheering crowd, Trump called AI doomerism “a hoax” and declared: “The robots are not going to be taking over the world.”² A widely shared All-In post captured the moment, quoting Trump as saying, “I’m telling you, it’s all a hoax … and we’re not going to let that happen.”David Sacks (DavidSacks)³

Trump’s intervention placed him squarely with executives who view existential-risk warnings and regulation as threats to American AI momentum. He said the U.S. should be careful, but not halt development; Huang, speaking to the president from the stage, said America should ensure “every industry, every company, every state, every people” benefits from the AI race.⁴

Yet Huang’s position was more qualified than Trump’s broadside. He called AI safety “paramount” and said the country could lead “and do it safely.”¹ He also praised Coxon’s “great courage” in speaking out about potential problems inside a company, while rejecting forecasts of extinction as unsupported: “The scientific prediction about the future is less fine because it’s not grounded on science.”¹

That distinction is the fault line. Trump treats the alarm as a hoax to be defeated; Huang treats it as a safety debate that must be separated from science-fiction certainty. Critics, meanwhile, note Nvidia’s commercial stake: AI labs are among its biggest customers, giving the chipmaker every reason to resist rhetoric that could slow the buildout.⁵