The president has rejected calls by industry leaders for a coordinated slowdown in technological development.
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President Donald Trump dismissed artificial intelligence fears as a “hoax” in a call Monday with the chief executive of the world’s top chipmaker — a conversation that played out onstage in front of a cheering Los Angeles audience.
“The robots will not be taking over,” Trump told Nvidia CEO Jensen Huang, who was speaking at an event hosted by the “All-In” podcast — the home of many of Trump’s leading tech world allies.
The call encapsulated a split that has emerged in Silicon Valley in the days since the resignation of a researcher at AI maker Anthropic who warned that the technology could wipe out humanity. The industry’s leaders rallied over the weekend to call for a slowdown of the pace of development to give their companies more time to work on safety.
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But Trump has repeatedly dismissed the concerns, saying they play into the hands of China. He has a powerful ally in Huang, whose company makes chips vital to AI’s success.
“America is able to lead and to do it safely,” Huang said.
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