Trump phones Nvidia's Huang on stage; Huang later says AI needs no new laws

On the call, Trump repeated his claim that warnings of an AI takeover are a hoax, said data centers make people and states wealthy, compared AI to the oil of the coming decades and said the United States must beat China, according to NBC News. Huang replied that he would work to ensure everyone wins the AI race in America. NBC noted that Huang sits on Trump's council of science and technology advisers.

At Dreamforce in San Francisco on Sept. 15, in a conversation with Salesforce chief executive Marc Benioff, Huang described AI as hardware and software that existing law can address, called safety an engineering and testing task, and argued that market pressure keeps companies from shipping unsafe products, TechCrunch and Bloomberg reported. He rejected the idea that speed and safety are in tension.

Huang's position contrasts with that of Anthropic chief executive Dario Amodei, whose Sept. 12 essay urged labs to slow capability gains. TechCrunch noted that Nvidia, which supplies chips to AI developers, has a commercial interest in continued rapid development.