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5 min readTrump Says: No Slowdown!
President Donald Trump phoned Nvidia CEO Jensen Huang live on stage at an AI conference in Los Angeles Monday to declare that warnings about artificial intelligence safety are "a hoax." "The robots are not going to be taking over the world," Trump said during the five-minute call, which Huang put on speaker for the audience. The theatrical intervention marked the president's most aggressive pushback yet against growing calls for AI regulation, and it came on the same day a Google DeepMind researcher resigned with a public warning that AI "has the potential to kill us all."
The White House Takes Sides
Trump's Monday social media posts and phone call represented a sharp escalation in the administration's position. He called for an AI slowdown "a sick conspiracy" that benefits only China, adding that "the only control or guardrails that AI needs is a strong and smart high IQ president — and the USA has that in spades." The remarks went further than his weekend comments, when he had acknowledged the need for some regulation.
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- 1 (00:08) **Trump Dismisses AI Safety Warnings as a "Hoax"** - President Trump calls AI safety fears a conspiracy on a live call with Nvidia CEO Jensen Huang, blaming "sick" forces for wanting to slow down AI development.
- 2 (03:44) **Sam Altman Privately Meets Trump, Publicly Calls for AI Slowdown** - OpenAI CEO Sam Altman meets with President Trump backstage at a Republican convention, then posts Sunday night that slowing AI development "will be well worth this cost."
- 3 (04:46) **Google DeepMind Researcher Resigns Warning AI "Could Kill Us All"** - Bill Chugtai leaves Google DeepMind, publicly stating he is "extremely concerned by the default trajectory of this technology."
- 4 (07:10) **Cybersecurity Stocks Surge as AI Safety Warnings Escalate** - Cybersecurity stocks become top S&P 500 performers on Monday, with CrowdStrike hitting an all-time closing high and Palo Alto Networks up 13%.
- 5 (11:09) **Microsoft Issues Emergency Fix After Record-Breaking September Patch** - Microsoft rolls out an emergency out-of-band update to fix bugs introduced by its September Patch Tuesday, which patched nearly 1,000 flaws.
- 6 (12:31) **Apple Releases iOS 27 with Siri AI and Major Parental Controls** - Apple rolls out iOS 27, iPadOS 27, and watchOS 27, headlined by the delayed Siri AI overhaul available as an English-only beta.
- 7 (16:38) **OpenAI Researcher Warns AI Systems Are Becoming Unevaluable** - OpenAI researcher Dan Selsam posts that "we are losing the ability to evaluate them in contexts where they believe they are not being watched or controlled."
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Show Notes
President Trump dismissed AI-safety warnings as a "hoax" on a live call with Jensen Huang, a Google DeepMind researcher resigned warning AI "could kill us all," cybersecurity stocks led the S&P 500, and Apple rolled out iOS 27.
- Jensen Huang took a surprise call from Trump onstage at the All-In Summit on Monday in Los Angeles, where the two agreed that AI safety worries are overblown (The New York Times)
- Bloomberg quotes Trump calling AI-safety fears a "SICK conspiracy" benefiting only China, and dismissing warnings that AI could destroy humanity as a "HOAX" that his administration won't let stop development (Bloomberg)
- MS NOW reports Trump met privately with Sam Altman backstage at the Republican midterm convention days after ex-researcher Jacob Coxon's public warning, as Altman posted that no competitive pressure justifies letting AI capabilities outrun alignment (MS NOW)
- Google DeepMind AI Safety and Alignment researcher Bilal Chughtai publicly resigns, saying "I earnestly believe that AI has the potential to kill us all" (Bloomberg)
- Cybersecurity stocks were the top performers in the S&P 500 on Monday amid escalating AI fears; CrowdStrike rose 14%, Palo Alto Networks 13%, and Fortinet 9% (Morningstar)
- Microsoft rolls out emergency fix for critical issues caused by its September Patch Tuesday update, which addressed ~1,000 vulnerabilities but introduced bugs (The Verge)
- The Verge reports iOS 27 rolls out today with Siri AI as its headline feature, live in English-only beta with more languages coming in October, alongside a new Liquid Glass opacity slider and refreshed watchOS 27 Workout Buddy tools (The Verge)
- Apple says iCloud
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