By Nicole Kobie
Publication Date: 2026-09-15 10:37:00
Fears of AI sparking an existential crisis for humanity have been batted away by American President Trump, who called the predictions a “hoax” in an interview-interrupting phone call to Nvidia’s CEO.
Last week, an Anthropic researcher quit the company over concerns that the AI arms race was unsafe for humans. One of his colleagues subsequently predicted there was a more than 10% chance that AI will end humanity in the near future.
That sparked a call for greater regulation of AI and calls from inside the industry – including from Anthropic CEO Dario Amodei – to slow down the pace of frontier model development, with the US Congress looking set to demand action.
The fears of AI superintelligence causing harm to humans aren’t new, and plenty of experts have suggested this is another phase in the AI hype cycle, designed to boost Anthropic ahead of a looming IPO, let AI companies self-regulate, or slow the progress of challengers such as China to keep them from catching up.
Trump calls AI fears a hoax
Trump also disputed the AI doomerism fears, though for different reasons. His addition to the discourse came via a phone call to Nvidia’s CEO Jensen Huang, who was onstage at the All-In Summit in Los Angeles, California at the time. Huang answered the phone, put it on speaker mode, and informed Trump that he was “speaking with the world”.
“The robots will not be taking over,” he said. “The AI will not be taking over the rest of the world. The whole thing is a hoax.”
“I’m telling…