Jensen Huang took a surprise call from Trump onstage at the All-In Summit on Monday in Los Angeles, where the two agreed that AI safety worries are overblown

Mr. Trump called Jensen Huang, Nvidia's chief executive, while Mr. Huang was onstage in Los Angeles and criticized calls to slow down and regulate A.I.

New York Times 2026-09-15

Context & Ripple Effects

Huang has made Nvidia’s role in U.S. AI competition a central part of his engagement with Trump, from praising the administration’s policy agenda at Nvidia’s Washington conference to joining the president’s China trip in May 2026. He also said in July that his role was to inform the president on export rules, not to claim credit for changing policy.

The onstage call turns that access into a public alignment over the pace of AI development. It lands alongside Huang’s separate comments against new AI laws at a Salesforce event, making Nvidia’s policy posture unusually visible.

First-order effects

Trump’s rejection of an AI slowdown gives Nvidia a prominent presidential platform for its argument that rapid AI deployment should not be constrained by new federal rules.
Huang’s decision to put the call onstage reinforces Nvidia’s position as a company with direct access to an administration framing AI progress as a national-competition issue.

Second-order effects

AI companies and advocates pressing for a slowdown or new safeguards face a clearer political counterweight: Trump has publicly cast restraint as inconsistent with the U.S. AI race.
Nvidia’s rivals in AI infrastructure must contend with a policy debate in which access to government and national-interest framing can be as visible as product positioning.

Third-order effects

If this alignment persists, AI governance may be shaped less by broad precautionary rules and more by state-mediated industrial policy that favors continued buildout and strategic competitiveness.
The episode points to leading compute suppliers becoming regular participants in AI policy formation, tying hardware strategy more tightly to presidential priorities.

The trend: AI policy is becoming a contest between safety-led governance demands and a state-backed competitiveness agenda in which compute suppliers hold growing influence.

Discussion

@benitoz @benitoz on x
Holy crap POTUS just phoned in @JensenHuang live on stage at All In Summit We will not lose the ai race! And whatever Dario said this weekend won't stop our progress This made my morning! $NVDA
@dhh @dhh on x
This is the exact stance we took at 37signals back in 2021, and it's still the correct one. Work is a terrible place to litigate societal/political questions unrelated to the business with coworkers. “Do it outside” is also the Omarchy way now. Love that Jensen is affirming it 🤘
@dkthomp Derek Thompson on x
I feel like I'm taking crazy pills with how many smart people I read and respect are saying stuff like this. The idea that the AI labs are suddenly, only now, just in September of 2026, advocating for AI safety, and that they just came around to this position bc of sudden financi…
@skdh Sabine Hossenfelder on x
fwiw I think the actual reason leaders of AI frontier labs suddenly seem to agree to pace AI development is (a) safety measures are currently so crap that they're likely to end up in court if not jail, and they all agree that no one wants that (b) they see no major new model adva…
@andrewcurran_ Andrew Curran on x
President Trump on Truth Social says there will be no AI slowdown or pause. It's full speed ahead. He says the entire thing is a “sick conspiracy
@pewilliams_ Paul E Williams on x
Saying this and then taking a phone call from the President and making fun of Dario for being woke is beastmode actually
@gavinsbaker Gavin Baker on x
The way that Anthropic and OpenAI are going to “pace” the frontier is by spending more time and more *compute* on alignment, monitoring and evals. The frontier labs that choose to “pace” likely spend slightly more money on compute at the cost of lower margins. That's it.
@andrewcurran_ Andrew Curran on x
President Trump: ‘Al taking over the World, destroying Humanity, and all other things bad, is a HOAX’ ‘It will not be stopped by brilliantly run Destructive Forces during the Term of President DONALD J. TRUMP!’
@andrewcurran_ Andrew Curran on x
President Trump just called Jensen live on stage at the All In Summit and said slowing down would be playing right into the hands of China. President Trump: We're not going to let that happen. It's a hoax! Jensen Huang: That's right, we're not going to let that happen sir.
@atabarrok Alex Tabarrok on x
@samfbiddle Right but for most of the people speaking out their financial incentive are to stay quiet.
@jun_song Jun Song on x
I want every single person in the world to succeed. I don't want anyone gatekeeping intelligence just to exploit people. This is why open source has to win.
@uhshanti @uhshanti on x
I think the best thing any lefty can do right now who is trying to figure out what a coherent analysis and response on AI should be is watch the girls, as they are fightinggg. not joking! capitalist on capitalist violence is instructive!
@firstadopter Tae Kim on x
at least he was polite 🤣
@wallstengine @wallstengine on x
President Trump calls NVIDIA CEO Jensen Huang live on stage at the All-In Summit. “The robots will not be taking over. The AI will not be taking over the rest of the world. The whole thing is a hoax.”
@fchollet François Chollet on x
You cannot separate “this person genuinely believes X, therefore they want Y” and “Y is in this person's interest”. People will almost always align their beliefs and their interests. You can be sincere *and* self-interested, and that's usually the default.
@mikeisaac Rat King on x
per sources, trump is basically stumping for Jensen/Nvidia and data center buildout: “They're [Doomers] playing right into the hands of a lot of people that don't want to see it happen. Political people, and also china. We're not going to let that happen. it's a hoax.” — Trump
@jessesingal Jesse Singal on x
As I said on here I was so confused when Cal Newport, in an anti-doomerism piece everyone was lauding, treated Huang as a moderate voice of reason, the opposite of those x-risk weirdo cultists. Very strange times
@brian_armstrong Brian Armstrong on x
Glad to see this idea has spread! Better for everyone.
@thezvi Zvi Mowshowitz on x
Okay, this is very different, this is full hostility mode and very very bad news.
@chrisgpt Chris on x
Jensen received a phone call from the President live on stage at the All In Summit heres the most important part of that interaction: Trump: “They want to see that happen it could be China...We're not going to let that happen, It's a hoax!” Jensen Huang:
@micsolana Mike Solana on x
nobody is saying AI doom as a space was invented in the last two weeks. the thing skeptics are saying, which I do not agree with, is the “whistleblower” (he wasn't that) is part of an op coordinated by powerful wealthy safety people (and maybe also china?).
@drjstrategy James E. Thorne on x
We live in interesting times 👇
@andymasley Andy Masley on x
Yeah agree. We've seen a lot of amazing progress from both the right and left and it's a terrible time to reinforce memes about this being about one specific party.
@altcap Brad Gerstner on x
More from Jensen: Coxon claims not based on science & demonstrably untrue; America we have to run - slowing is definitely the wrong strategy; We are already at super intelligence; The labs are incredible - we just need to urge them on but tone down the drama;
@edzitron Ed Zitron on x
maybe ya shouldn't have claimed that we'd “hit AGI” bud
@kylekuzma @kylekuzma on x
Yeah maybe we should listen to the guy that has damn near built this revolution, instead of paid actor puppets about AI?
@levelsio @levelsio on x
The good guys won this week
@theallinpod @theallinpod on x
MUST SEE: Amazing moment as President Trump calls Nvidia CEO Jensen Huang while he's on stage at the All-In Summit. @POTUS on AI Doomerism: “I'm telling you, it's all a hoax... and we're not going to let that happen.”
@samfbiddle Sam Biddle on x
This is part of why the current frenzy is so frustrating: Virtually every single prominent entity speaking loudly about AI has a massive financial interest in things shaking out one way or another
@mikeisaac Rat King on x
jensen huang, CEO of nvidia, is currently onstage at the All In tech summit politely calling bullshit on the doomerism coming out of Anthropic (and OpenAI to some degree) right now nvidia just as conflicted as everyone, since it sells the chips to all the AI companies
@kimmonismus @kimmonismus on x
Trump: “Its a hoax, we are not gonna let that happen”. They are not going to slow down. Jensen: “Thats right, we are not gonna let that happen.
@thestalwart Joe Weisenthal on x
So many people reason through heuristics, like who is aligned with whom, what personal financial interests they might have at stake, what peer group pressure they get. And I get it, because these things are complicated. But the way out, as always, is to seek truth from facts.
@hughhewitt Hugh Hewitt on x
Listeners need to focus on “We want America to succeed.” There are many ways to understand “wanting America to succeed.” Jensen Huang probably has a traditional understanding of what that means. Many in politics today have radically different ideas of what that phrase means.
@scottstts Scott on x
“We're not gonna pace the frontier, got it boys?”
@hesamation @hesamation on x
Sir, you somehow united the US president, China, Jensen Huang, and half the AI industry against us. you achieved GLOBAL COORDINATION but AGAINST pacing.
@miles_brundage Miles Brundage on x
@samfbiddle If you define prominence by being a large company or on the staff there, sure. But there are plenty of non-financially-interested experts raising the alarm, and there always have been.
@chrislhayes Chris Hayes on x
@samfbiddle Yes which is why people have to just do their best job of assessing the evidence and arguments and use their judgment without simply relying on that heuristic. Makes it tricky!
@chamath Chamath Palihapitiya on x
This was surreal
@thezvi Zvi Mowshowitz on x
I urge everyone, no matter how bad the statements get, I don't care what Trump says, do not turn this into more of a partisan thing than it already is, do not attack on that basis. That only makes things worse.
@dratchcap Matt Dratch on x
Jensen is clearly running out of patience with the lab CEOs. He anchors their rounds / IPOs, supplies the compute, then gets another doomerism sermon. Eventually he says, fine. No more GPUs for you. I'll build the lab myself. Let them eat ASICs
@thechiefnerd @thechiefnerd on x
JENSEN HUANG: “We don't welcome political discourse inside our company. Take it home ... We're bipartisan. We want America to succeed ... The discourse about race and religion and politics and all of that stuff, we tell people do it outside the company. It's not for us.”
@signulll @signulll on x
the events unfolding right now are so incredible that even seasoned drama writers would struggle to create a timeline this good. half of it would get rejected from the writers' room for being too unrealistic.
@mikeisaac Rat King on x
okay wow. per folks there, Trump called Jensen huang in the middle of his interview and jensen put the phone on speakerphone Jensen thanked trump for his social media post this morning pouring cold water on alarmism
@altcap Brad Gerstner on x
Trump calling @JensenHuang live during @theallinpod interview. “The grt thing about Jensen is that he can create the best AI chip in the world but can't figure out how to put me on speaker phone.” They agree that AI is safe, grt for jobs, economic growth & natl security. 😂🇺🇸🚀 …
@dkthomp Derek Thompson on x
Some reasonable critiques of Anthropic policy 1) If you cared so much about AI safety for years, why didn't you do more to unilaterally embed third-party evaluators a long time ago? 2) Why haven't you done more to engage China, if you believe that Chinese AI policy is allegedly l…
@divestech Dan Ives on x
If OpenAI and Anthropic slow their model development, the software sector will accelerate its AI development and further narrow the gap against the frontier models. Meta will also go down this path and many others. Need to see around the corner and thru the noise in this🎯
@noahpinion Noah Smith on x
Anthropic people understand AI's potential for bioterror in a way that a lot of copers won't let themselves understand
@garymarcus Gary Marcus on x
they have made lots of progress (partly using neurosymbolic techniques!) on problems that can be formally verified, but that progress was very expensive and doesn't translate well outside of benchmarks, and on the ECI the gain was modest. Astra is not that much better than the la…
@dkthomp Derek Thompson on x
“If Dario Amodei believes that Anthropic should be nationalized, he should just hand the company over to Donald Trump” Donald Trump:
@sama Sam Altman on x
Sam Altman says he agrees with Amodei that “committing to having independent evaluators with employee-like access is a great idea”, and OpenAI will do the same
@jake__traylor Jake Traylor on x
SCOOP: Trump privately met with Open AI's Sam Altman at GOP convention per three people familiar. The Thursday meeting took place two days after a former researcher for the company publicly accused both it and rival Anthropic of acting irresponsibly and
@sama Sam Altman on x
Sam Altman says “we welcome a federal framework” but “we do not believe we need to wait” for an antitrust exemption or a law to slow AI development responsibly
r/BetterOffline r on reddit
Is this the context for Trump's latest AI tweets? Trump privately met with OpenAI's Sam Altman at GOP convention.
Vox Cameron Peters on x
Everyone but Trump is worried about AI
@linamkhan Lina Khan on x
Law enforcers already have authority to charge companies and their CEOs for creating and releasing dangerous, unvetted, or defective products. We shouldn't let discussions about new legal regimes distract from the fact that there's no AI exemption from laws already on the books —…
@dowcto @dowcto on x
Americanism, not effective altruism. The United States will continue to be AI DOMINANT! 🇺🇸
@atrupar Aaron Rupar on x
JD Vance: “I have to say, just personally, I feel a little bit weird about the fact that you have so many frontier AI tech companies kind of coming to the government and begging the government to regulate them. It feels a little bit to me like a bit of a trojan horse.”
@alecstapp Alec Stapp on x
The idea that Jensen cares about keeping the US ahead of China in AI is laughable. NVIDIA lobbies very hard in DC to be allowed to sell more AI chips to China. Last year, when @FareedZakaria asked Jensen if it matters who wins the AI race, he said: “I don't think it does.”
@willoremus Will Oremus on x
I'm not saying they're wrong but it is a little funny that Trump and a big chunk of the anti-AI left seem to basically agree that we should mock and ignore the people in the AI industry who are saying they feel trapped in an arms race that is starting to get a bit out of hand
@hackingdave Dave Kennedy on x
AI represents one of the largest technological leaps I have witnessed in nearly 30 years in technology and cybersecurity. These models are advancing faster than anything we have seen in modern technological history. The central concern is that this is fundamentally different from…
@garymarcus Gary Marcus on x
not a winning strategy, either for himself or the world
@dowcto @dowcto on x
Thank you for your attention to this matter! 🇺🇸
@palmerluckey Palmer Luckey on x
Palmer Luckey (@PalmerLuckey) on X
@agustinlebron3 Agustin Lebron on x
Dario is a bad messenger for everything. For AI safety, for AI, for the tech industry, for SF, for progress, all of it. He is radioactively bad in public and the average person instantly hates him just by looking at him. Worse than Zuck. Anthro needs to wise up fast.
@robertgraham Robert Graham on x
Development? No. They are talking abut slowing down RELEASES to the public, not internal DEVELOPMENT. Once they finish pre-training their next “foundational model
@barackobama Barack Obama on x
So, we need to use this time to structure a more open, public and democratic conversation about AI. Building on the statements that the frontier companies have already made, some leaders in the space announced they're launching what they call Project Blueprint to help tech compan…
@zephyr_z9 @zephyr_z9 on x
Bruh, the whale bros are comparing Dario to Hitler and Saburo Arasaka LMAO
@teroterotero Tero Kuittinen on x
Can't wait to see the next Sam interview where he tries to walk back his previous interview in order to keep his Trump relationship warm and cozy.
@dee_bosa Deirdre Bosa on x
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@mikeisaac Rat King on x
surreal moment for me personally to see the 44th president of the united states make a statement using the words “accelerationist” and “doomer” we are truly through the looking glass
@hilbertspaess Jacob Coxon on x
@annmarie Fake news. I was invited but did not agree to go
@barackobama Barack Obama on x
I was encouraged this week to see the leaders of the frontier labs agree on the need for them to slow down the pace of AI development. Given the stakes, it's a good and necessary first step. But I'm even more encouraged by the growing recognition that how this powerful new tech…
@thestalwart Joe Weisenthal on x
@samfbiddle So you have the one group looking at Jensen being chummy with Trump, and thinking that safety skeptics are purely money motivated. And you have folks saying that the safetyists are just motivated by Anthropic money. And I'm saying it's a dead end to reason this way!
@atrupar Aaron Rupar on x
Ossoff: “But Donald Trump basically says, 'we're going to sit on our hands and hope for the best.' And remember, he's conflicted. 1789 Capital — I mentioned that venture firm that Don Jr is a partner in. They've invested heavily in AI labs ... the president is compromised.”
@deryatr_ Derya Unutmaz on x
Hah! This made my day! We 🇺🇸 are going to make it & continue to lead in the age of AI! Thank you, Mr. President @realDonaldTrump. Thank you, @JensenHuang! 🙏 Some of us are grateful to both of you for keeping us on the path toward a golden age and blocking a dystopian future!
@tszzl Roon on x
@teortaxesTex he'll come around. dario was a very bad messenger for this
@aghamilton29 @aghamilton29 on x
I had some hesitation about calling me it an op until now... But teaming up with Jeffrey Epstein's best friend/publicist whose main benefactor for years has been a convicted fraudster with CCP ties (Miles Guo) kind of gives away the game...
@agustinlebron3 Agustin Lebron on x
Seriously, if you're pro-AI safety you need to rethink the tactics that have Dario ever opening his mouth in front of a microphone. Middle America hates a guy who thinks he's smarter than them and who reminds them of this with every utterance.
@jason @jason on x
Trump to Dario: get back to work, we need to beat China — and traitors will be dealt with.
@ccatalini Christian Catalini on x
1/ For the safety discussion, recursive self-improvement is a red herring. We already have increasing automation of AI R&D.
@taylorlorenz Taylor Lorenz on x
Obama invoking AI's potential impact on “our kids” is concerning given how Democrats are weaponizing “online safety” laws to censor speech and access to information.
@andrewcurran_ Andrew Curran on x
Tried: Mechanistic Interpretability, Superalignment, industry-led regulatory bodies Wired: STRONG AND SMART (High IQ!) PRESIDENT
@afinetheorem Kevin A. Bryan on x
The biggest barrier to a US-China AI safety treaty are that the two countries are led by 80- and 73-year-old narcissists who regularly wipe “disloyal” experts on the tech from their govt and see everything as zero-sum. Actually very dangerous.
@ninadschick Nina Schick on x
Trump is the AI President, as I wrote in 2024. Now, the question is if by making AI ‘his cause,’ it will repel a large part of the electorate/political corpus on principle. Judging by how the Dems are preparing for 2028 on an anti-AI platform, which also includes MAGA figures lik…
@tedlieu Ted Lieu on x
trump and House Republican Leadership are on the wrong side of history. Letting the AI industry run wild has been bad for America, bad for the industry, and bad for American families. November is coming.
@zerohedge @zerohedge on x
Trump says there is “a SICK conspiracy going on against AI and Data Centers, and the only one that is happy about it is China” says “Dario is now pretending to be a “perfect little angel” after he was “stopped from doing bad, or potentially bad “things.”
@jonfavs Jon Favreau on x
We must beat China in the race to develop superhuman intelligence humans could lose control of! We should not do anything about this potential threat!!
@hesamation @hesamation on x
The Trump Administration has stopped Al “people” from doing bad, or potentially bad “things,” like Dario (Anthropic!), who is now pretending to be a “perfect little angel” BRO WHAT?!
@synthwavedd Leo on x
Uh oh
@danprimack Dan Primack on x
Didn't crypto do the exact same thing?
@shakeelhashim Shakeel on x
oh good.
@amitisinvesting Amit on x
TRUMP: ANYONE CALLING FOR A SLOWDOWN OF AI IS A TRAITOR, THEY WILL LET CHINA WIN well, the President is making it clear about his opinion on all of this AI drama
@cat_zakrzewski Cat Zakrzewski on x
Trump doubles down on his opposition to new AI regulation, arguing that the only safeguard the technology needs is a “STRONG AND SMART (High IQ!)” president.
@negligible_cap @negligible_cap on x
*TRUMP: ONLY CONTROL THAT AI NEEDS IS A STRONG PRESIDENT *TRUMP SAYS DARIO IS PRETENDING TO BE ‘PERFECT LITTLE ANGEL’ lol
@atrupar Aaron Rupar on x
Trump: “The only control or ‘guardrails’ that AI needs is a STRONG AND SMART (High IQ!) PRESIDENT, and the U.S.A. has that, in spades!”
@deanwball Dean W. Ball on x
“You AI people are so naive, I live in the REAL world, where [I have been consistently wrong in my predictions about AI and behind the ball on every trend related to AI, routinely making little prognostications that stochastic gradient descent joyfully stomps all over.]”
@mbeisen @mbeisen on x
If Dario and Sam really wanted to slow down the pace of AI, they would move their research to a university.
@marmel Steve Marmel on bluesky
Bernie and Bannon unite for “pro-human” — Guys, if you're pissed at Jeffries for meeting with Kushner, then Sanders should be dead to you. — www.axios.com/2026/09/14/c...
@wajali Wajahat Ali on bluesky
Toldya. — Bannon and the post-MAGA world are moving to the left of many establishment Dems on AI. — Here it is. — Sigh. — www.axios.com/2026/09/14/c...
@karlbode.com Karl Bode on bluesky
guy isn't even smart enough to know the push for more “AI guardrails” isn't real, will never actually happen
@infrequently.org Alex Russell on bluesky
Wow, OK, but we won't have one of those until '29 at the earliest... bbc.com/news/live/cm70d9...
r/singularity r on reddit
Trump says a strong, smart president is the only “guardrail” AI needs. I guess we need to start that search now right for a smart president?
r/ProgressiveHQ r on reddit
We're screwed
r/technology r on reddit
Trump criticises AI boss who called for slowdown and says only guardrail needed is a ‘smart president’
r/politics r on reddit
Trump says a strong, smart president is the only “guardrail” AI needs
@beffjezos @beffjezos on x
It's so surreal seeing everyone without an anxiety disorder just rederiving e/acc logic in real time these past few days.
@osint613 @osint613 on x
Nvidia CEO Jensen Huang: Nobody in China is saying that there's end of this and end of that, and cataclysmic this and doom or that. We're making it up. The part that is frustrating is, if it was true, then we ought to talk about it and go do something about it, right? Even if it'…
@nick_field90 Nick Field on x
What a turn of fortune for the Luca Guadagnino/Andrew Garfield Sam Altman film. The film was dropped by Amazon over the summer, now they've got a new distributor and a film festival premiere in three weeks https://x.com/...
r/youvotedforthat r on reddit
Trump says a strong, smart president is the only “guardrail” AI needs... so when can we get one of those instead of Trump?
@clashreport @clashreport on x
Nvidia CEO Jensen Huang: Nobody in China is saying that there's end of this and end of that, and cataclysmic this and doom or that. We're making it up. The part that is frustrating is, if it was true, then we ought to talk about it and go do something about it, right? Even if it'…
r/BetterOffline r on reddit
Trump phones Nvidia's Huang at All-In Summit, calls data center opposition a ‘hoax’
r/NVDA_Stock r on reddit
Trump calls Jensen at All in Summit
@matthewstoller Matt Stoller on x
The fact that a bunch of AI oligarchs can conjure up a fake crisis, and then demand they get their own regulatory regime, and the Democrats wholesale buy into it, is very depressing.
@deanwball Dean W. Ball on x
There's an impulse in American politics, a set of tactics and drives that has proven very effective at extinguishing speech. We once called it McCarthyism. Another time we called it Wokeism. One day in the future we will have some name for the campaign that is underway against al…
@danprimack Dan Primack on x
Not totally accurate, but closer to true than false.
@zck Zak Kukoff on x
It's probably bad for America - and certainly bad for our tech advantage - that effective altruists and accelerationists have so neatly mapped to Dem/Republican
@ruima Rui Ma on x
I find it really tiring to hear that China doesn't care about AI risk. Did you know that AI literally falls under the Chinese Foreign Ministry's Department of Arms Control? AI is one of its explicit portfolios, alongside nuclear weapons, nonproliferation, chemical and biological …
@dkthomp Derek Thompson on x
Is there a China expert I should talk to who thinks Jensen and Trump are basically right; that chip trade with China is fine; and that the fear of advanced Chinese open-weight models becoming an RSI/AGI supermonstergod is absurd?
@jawillick Jason Willick on x
Maybe they think “outside evaluators” can be a liability shield.
@mattplatkin Matt Platkin on x
1. Why do we need their blessing? They didn't ask for our permission to recklessly create technology that, by their own admission (!), can kill us all. 2. Can we try relying on expertise of people not seeking trillions of dollars for the thing we are trying to regulate? 3. An ear…
@thelastrefuge2 @thelastrefuge2 on x
The Dept of Federal Cyber Compliance. Gee, what could possibly go wrong?
@zachary Zach Warmbrodt on x
NEW: OpenAI is backing a bipartisan House proposal that would require top AI companies to embed outside evaluators to ensure their models are safe. @brendanbordelon https://www.politico.com/...
@kevinbankston Kevin Bankston on x
Notable...Wonder what changes they are asking for ("specifically talked about how we think about IVO and made clear that we can support that," emphasis mine), wonder where Anthropic is on the current text, etc.
@emma_dumain Emma Dumain on x
Potentially a big deal for a bipartisan bill that's been slow to pick up traction, despite being the only comprehensive AI safety framework ready for committee action on the Hill

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