Vertiv CEO Giordano Albertazzi discusses demand for AI infrastructure and explains why warnings about AI development won’t slow development of ‘The Claman Countdown’. Nvidia CEO Jensen Huang received a surprise phone call from President Donald Trump on Monday, in which the president dismissed fears that AI poses an existential threat to humanity and opposed calls to curb frontier AI development. While speaking on stage at the All-In Summit in Los Angeles, Huang took the call and put Trump on speaker for an audience of thousands, as shown in a video of the event shared by All-In Podcast. “I tell you it’s all a hoax,” Trump said. “Data centers are fantastic, they make people rich and they make states rich, and they are the oil of the next 20 to 25 years.” Trump said critics are “playing into the hands of a lot of people who don’t want this to happen.” TRUMP RESPONDS TO GROWING CONCERNS OVER AI SECURITY, INSISTS TECHNOLOGY WILL BE ‘MORE GOOD THAN BAD’ 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) “Those could be politicians. It could also be China. And we’re not going to let that happen,” Trump said. The president also rejected the idea that AI could pose an existential threat to humanity. “Robots are not going to take over the world,” the president added. Separately on Monday, Trump shared a series of Truth Social posts defending the development of AI and criticizing calls for greater regulation. “AI is taking over the world, destroying humanity and everyone else.” “The bad stuff, it’s a HOAX,” Trump wrote. (Andrew Harnik/Getty Images) Trump’s comments come as the debate over AI safety intensifies in Silicon Valley and Washington. Anthropic CEO Dario Amodei published an essay over the weekend urging the industry to “slow down the pace” of cutting-edge AI development. Amodei argued that while AI could offer enormous benefits, companies should strengthen safeguards as the technology becomes increasingly capable. “AI brings risks, and because it is such a powerful technology, these risks are serious. I have written extensively about them. They also include the risk of losing control of AI systems, the misuse of AI for cyberattacks and bioterrorism, and serious economic disruptions,” Amodei wrote. SAM ALTMAN IDENTIFIES THE TWO BIGGEST RISKS FACEING THE FUTURE OF AI Anthropic CEO Dario Amodei published an essay over the weekend urging the industry to “slow down the pace” of cutting-edge AI development. (Anna Moneymaker/Getty Images) The trial also garnered support from OpenAI CEO Sam Altman and SpaceX CEO Elon Musk. “Dario is right,” Musk wrote on FOX Business could not immediately reach Nvidia for comment.
