{"id":848609,"date":"2026-09-15T12:48:28","date_gmt":"2026-09-15T12:48:28","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/us\/848609\/"},"modified":"2026-09-15T12:48:28","modified_gmt":"2026-09-15T12:48:28","slug":"trump-tells-nvidia-ceo-that-ai-fears-are-a-hoax-during-phone-call","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/us\/848609\/","title":{"rendered":"Trump tells Nvidia CEO that AI fears are a &#8216;hoax&#8217; during phone call"},"content":{"rendered":"\n<p>Vertiv CEO Giordano Albertazzi discusses the demand for artificial intelligence infrastructure and explains why warnings about AI development will not slow down the buildout on \u2018The Claman Countdown.\u2019<\/p>\n<p>Nvidia CEO Jensen Huang received a surprise phone call from <a href=\"https:\/\/www.foxbusiness.com\/category\/donald-trump\" target=\"_blank\" rel=\"noopener nofollow\">President Donald Trump<\/a> on Monday, in which the president dismissed fears that AI poses an existential threat to humanity and argued against calls to slow frontier AI development.<\/p>\n<p>While speaking on stage at the All-In Summit in Los Angeles, <a href=\"https:\/\/www.foxbusiness.com\/technology\/nvidia-ceo-jensen-huang-declares-agi-has-arrived-after-openai-unveils-gpt-6-astra\" target=\"_blank\" rel=\"noopener nofollow\">Huang answered<\/a> the call and placed Trump on speakerphone for the audience of thousands, as shown in a video of the event shared by the <a href=\"https:\/\/www.youtube.com\/watch?v=S7CrlFLAmEA\" target=\"_blank\" rel=\"nofollow noopener\">All-In Podcast<\/a>.\u00a0<\/p>\n<p>&#8220;I\u2019m telling you, it\u2019s all a hoax,&#8221; Trump said. &#8220;The data centers are great, and they make people wealthy, and they make states wealthy, and it&#8217;s the oil of the next 20\u201325 years.&#8221;<\/p>\n<p>Trump said critics are &#8220;playing right into the hands of a lot of people that don&#8217;t want to see it happen.&#8221;<\/p>\n<p><a href=\"https:\/\/www.foxbusiness.com\/politics\/trump-responds-rising-ai-safety-concerns-insists-tech-more-good-than-bad\" target=\"_blank\" rel=\"noopener nofollow\">TRUMP RESPONDS TO RISING AI SAFETY CONCERNS, INSISTS TECH WILL BE &#8216;MORE GOOD THAN BAD&#8217;<\/a><\/p>\n<p>    <img decoding=\"async\" src=\"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/us\/wp-content\/uploads\/2026\/09\/jensen-huang-nvidia-may-2026.jpg\" alt=\"Jensen Huang at Milken Global Conference\"\/> <\/p>\n<p>Nvidia CEO Jensen Huang received a surprise phone call from President Donald Trump on Monday while speaking on stage at the All-In Summit in Los Angeles. (Patrick T. Fallon \/ AFP via Getty Images)<\/p>\n<p>&#8220;That could be political people. It could also be China. And we&#8217;re not going to let that happen,&#8221; Trump said.<\/p>\n<p>The president also rejected the idea that <a href=\"https:\/\/www.foxbusiness.com\/category\/artificial-intelligence\" target=\"_blank\" rel=\"noopener nofollow\">AI could<\/a> pose an existential threat to humanity.<\/p>\n<p>&#8220;The robots are not going to be taking over the world,&#8221; the president added.<\/p>\n<p>Separately on Monday, Trump shared a series of Truth Social posts defending AI development and criticizing calls for increased regulation.<\/p>\n<p>&#8220;AI taking over <a href=\"https:\/\/www.foxbusiness.com\/category\/fox-news-world\" target=\"_blank\" rel=\"noopener nofollow\">the World<\/a>, destroying Humanity, and all other things bad, is a HOAX,&#8221; Trump wrote.<\/p>\n<p><a href=\"https:\/\/www.foxbusiness.com\/media\/tech-ceo-warns-centralized-ai-power-could-lead-counterfeit-human-technocrats-seeking-control\" target=\"_blank\" rel=\"noopener nofollow\">TECH CEO WARNS CENTRALIZED AI POWER COULD LEAD TO &#8216;COUNTERFEIT&#8217; HUMANS, TECHNOCRATS SEEKING CONTROL<\/a><\/p>\n<p>    <img decoding=\"async\" src=\"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/us\/wp-content\/uploads\/2026\/09\/trump-rnc-convention-speech.png\" alt=\"U.S. President Donald Trump appears on stage on the second day of the 2026 Republican National Convention in Dallas, Texas.\"\/> <\/p>\n<p>Trump also rejected the idea that AI could pose an existential threat to humanity. (Andrew Harnik\/Getty Images)<\/p>\n<p>Trump&#8217;s remarks come as the debate over AI safety intensifies across Silicon Valley and Washington.<\/p>\n<p>Anthropic CEO Dario Amodei published an essay over the weekend urging the industry to &#8220;slow the pace&#8221; of frontier AI development.<\/p>\n<p>Amodei argued that while AI could deliver enormous benefits, companies should strengthen safeguards as the technology becomes increasingly capable.<\/p>\n<p>&#8220;AI brings risks, and because it is such a <a href=\"https:\/\/www.foxbusiness.com\/technology\" target=\"_blank\" rel=\"noopener nofollow\">powerful technology<\/a>, these risks are serious. I\u2019ve written a lot about them too. They include the risk of losing control of AI systems, misuse of AI for cyberattacks and bioterrorism, and serious economic disruption,&#8221; Amodei wrote.<\/p>\n<p><a href=\"https:\/\/www.foxbusiness.com\/technology\/sam-altman-identifies-two-biggest-risks-facing-ais-future\" target=\"_blank\" rel=\"noopener nofollow\">SAM ALTMAN IDENTIFIES TWO BIGGEST RISKS FACING AI&#8217;S FUTURE<\/a><\/p>\n<p>    <img decoding=\"async\" src=\"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/us\/wp-content\/uploads\/2026\/09\/1789476508_140_dario-amodei-anthropic-june-2026.jpg\" alt=\"Anthropic CEO Dario Amodei\"\/> <\/p>\n<p>Anthropic CEO Dario Amodei published an essay over the weekend urging the industry to &#8220;slow the pace&#8221; of frontier AI development. (Anna Moneymaker\/Getty Images)<\/p>\n<p>The essay also drew support from OpenAI CEO Sam Altman and SpaceX CEO Elon Musk.<\/p>\n<p>&#8220;Dario is right,&#8221; Musk wrote on X.<\/p>\n<p><a href=\"https:\/\/www.foxbusiness.com\/apps-products\" target=\"_blank\" rel=\"noopener noreferrer nofollow\">GET FOX BUSINESS ON THE GO BY CLICKING HERE<\/a><\/p>\n<p>Altman echoed the sentiment, writing: &#8220;I agree with Dario that we need to pace the frontier. This has been a primary topic of discussions we&#8217;ve had at OpenAI in recent weeks.&#8221;<\/p>\n<p>Nvidia could not immediately be reached by FOX Business for comment.<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"Vertiv CEO Giordano Albertazzi discusses the demand for artificial intelligence infrastructure and explains why warnings about AI development&hellip;\n","protected":false},"author":2,"featured_media":848610,"comment_status":"","ping_status":"","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"footnotes":""},"categories":[18],"tags":[23,3,21,19,22,20,25,24],"class_list":["post-848609","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","has-post-thumbnail","category-united-states","tag-america","tag-news","tag-united-states","tag-united-states-of-america","tag-unitedstates","tag-unitedstatesofamerica","tag-us","tag-usa"],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/us\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/848609","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/us\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/us\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/us\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/users\/2"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/us\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=848609"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/us\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/848609\/revisions"}],"wp:featuredmedia":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/us\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media\/848610"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/us\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=848609"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/us\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=848609"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/us\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=848609"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}