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Nvidia CEO Jensen Huang was on stage at the All-In Summit in Los Angeles on Monday when he got a call from President Trump — he couldn’t send it to voicemail, so he had to pick up. Huang told Trump he was on stage with the All-In podcast hosts, including venture capitalist Chamath Palihapitiya, Jason Calacanis, and White House advisors David Friedberg and David Sacks. Huang generously put the call on speaker so the audience could hear the conversation. Trump joked that Huang could design the world’s most complex chips but couldn’t figure out speakerphone (in reality, Huang was asking staff for an extra mic so he could play the call for the crowd). At the time, the panel had been discussing Anthropic CEO Dario Amodei’s call to “slow down the pace of AI capability gains,” a view SpaceX CEO Elon Musk and OpenAI CEO Sam Altman have both publicly backed — Huang alone took a different stance. On the call, Trump said this kind of slowdown talk plays right into the hands of people who “don’t want to see America win at AI” — maybe politicians, maybe China — and called it a “hoax,” insisting he wouldn’t let it happen. Huang replied, “You’re right, sir, we’re not going to let that happen,” and the room broke into applause. Trump and allies like Y Combinator CEO Garry Tan believe the rising public backlash against data center construction is an international-scale psychological operation aimed at undermining U.S. economic growth. But according to a recent Gallup poll, about 70% of Americans oppose building data centers near their homes, over 50% worry about the impact on environmental resources, and about 20% worry about rising cost of living and quality-of-life effects. Trump closed by telling Huang he’d proceed carefully but wouldn’t halt the industry, saying, “We’re going to stay ahead.”

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Jensen Huang took a call from Trump live on stage at the All-In Summit and put it on speaker — right as the panel was discussing Dario Amodei’s call to slow down AI capability gains. That call moved the “should AI slow down” debate from closed-door meetings onto a very public stage.

What stands out is how clearly the industry has split into camps: Amodei is arguing for caution, Musk and Sam Altman have publicly backed slowing down, while Huang holds a different position, and Trump went even further, framing the slowdown calls outright as a “hoax.” That reflects a lack of consensus within the AI industry over the pace of development — different players (chipmakers, model companies, policymakers) see different risks and incentives. Meanwhile, a Gallup poll shows about 70% of Americans oppose building data centers near their homes, and over 50% worry about the environmental resource impact — showing that public unease about AI infrastructure isn’t simply explainable as “foreign interference,” but reflects real public sentiment. For AI builders, this is a reminder that the narrative around technological development (should we slow down, should we build more data centers) is shaped by a tug-of-war between business interests, political positioning, and public sentiment — not just a purely technical question.

Next time you see a public statement for “acceleration” or “deceleration,” it’s worth asking one more question: does the speaker’s position line up with their own business or political interests?

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