--- title: "Donald Trump Calls Nvidia CEO Jensen Huang Live on Stage, Says AI Takeover Claims Are a Hoax" url: https://digitaltechbyte.com/donald-trump-calls-nvidia-ceo-jensen-huang-live-on-stage-says-ai-takeover-claims-are-a-hoax/ date: 2026-09-15 modified: 2026-09-15 author: "Brijesh Desai" description: "Donald Trump calls Nvidia CEO Jensen Huang live on stage, says AI takeover claims are a hoax, dismissing AI safety fears as politically motivated and advantageous to China. 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While Huang was speaking on a panel, he answered a call from President Trump, put him on speaker, and allowed the president to address the audience directly about AI risks and regulation. During the roughly five-minute call, Trump dismissed warnings that advanced AI systems could become uncontrollable or threaten humanity, describing them as a politically motivated “hoax” that plays into the hands of China and other opponents of U.S. AI leadership. ## What happened on stage The incident occurred at the **All-In Summit**, a technology and investment conference hosted by the “All-In” podcast team (Chamath Palihapitiya, Jason Calacanis, David Sacks, and David Friedberg). Jensen Huang was on stage discussing AI development and recent calls from some industry leaders to slow the pace of frontier model progress. According to video and reports from attendees: - Huang’s phone rang during the panel. - He answered and said, “Mr President? I’ve got to tell you something. If it wasn’t because of you calling, I would… I’m on stage with the besties.” - He then put Trump on speaker so the crowd could hear. - Trump joked that Huang could design the world’s most complex chip but “can’t figure out how to put you on speaker,” as Huang worked with stagehands to project the call. The conversation quickly turned to AI safety and development speed. ## Trump’s message: AI fears are a “hoax” On speakerphone, Trump told the audience: > “The robots are not going to be taking over the world and that’s not going to happen. The AI will not be taking over the rest of the world. The whole thing is a hoax." He framed AI safety concerns as: - A conspiracy that benefits countries like **China**, which he said would be “very happy” to see U.S. companies slow down. - A political tool used by “people that don’t want to see [AI] happen.” - An obstacle to economic growth, claiming data centres “make people wealthy, and they make states wealthy” and are “the oil of the next 20, 25 years." Trump also linked his comments to recent debates over slowing AI development, including Anthropic CEO Dario Amodei’s call for the industry to “pace the frontier.” He suggested that such proposals play into the hands of adversaries. ## Huang’s response Jensen Huang did not challenge Trump’s characterisation. Instead, he aligned himself with the president’s position: > “You’re right. We’re not going to let that happen, sir." Huang added that Nvidia’s goal is to ensure that “everybody wins in the AI race in America — every industry, every company, every state, every people,” and rejected the idea that the industry must choose between rapid innovation and safety. He described that framing as a “wrong structure." ## Aftermath and market reaction Despite the upbeat messaging from Trump and Huang, Nvidia’s stock fell about **3%** later that day as part of a broader slide in chip stocks. Analysts noted that the market reaction reflected wider concerns about valuation, supply chains, and potential regulation, rather than the onstage call itself. Following the event, Trump posted on Truth Social that he is the “Hoax Buster,” breaking “another Hoax — That AI is going to take over, consume, and destroy the World, and that Robots will be marching into our Cities, and getting rid of us all!” He compared AI doomerism to the “Russia, Russia, Russia hoax” and the “Global Warming Scam." ## Context: AI safety debate The call comes amid a sharp divide in the AI industry: - On one side, figures like **Dario Amodei (Anthropic)**, **Sam Altman (OpenAI)**, and **Elon Musk (xAI)** have recently backed calls to “pace the frontier” and add independent evaluators inside AI labs. - On the other side, Trump, Huang, and some investors argue that excessive caution or slowdowns would cede advantage to China and harm U.S. economic and strategic interests. By publicly calling Huang and dismissing AI takeover fears as a hoax, Trump is signalling strong political support for rapid AI infrastructure build-out and opposition to new safety-driven constraints on development. **Summary:** **Donald Trump calls Nvidia CEO Jensen Huang live on stage, says AI takeover claims are a hoax**, using the All-In Summit to dismiss AI safety fears as politically motivated and advantageous to China. Huang agreed with Trump’s stance, while markets reacted with a modest Nvidia sell-off later in the day.