GoKawiilOn one side is President Donald Trump , Nvidia CEO Jensen Huang and former White House crypto czar David Sacks. The other has brought together clashing frontier lab leaders Dario Amodei of Anthropic , OpenAI 's Sam Altman and Elon Musk , along with a chorus of AI researchers.
The artificial intelligence safety debate triggered by a dire warning about the fate of humanity has united longtime enemies and opposing political foes across Washington and Silicon Valley.
The discussion quickly reached Washington, amplifying growing tensions over how to rein in mounting AI risks without stifling tech innovation.
Altman quickly joined forces with Amodei in an unusual pairing between the rival AI labs. Tesla and SpaceX CEO Musk chimed in on X that " Dario is right ," later adding that he's been " sounding the alarm on AI for a long time."
That frenzy built into the weekend, when Amodei called for the AI frontier to slow model development .
That wave of discourse was initially set off by Anthropic researcher Jacob Coxon , who announced last week that he quit his job due to concerns that OpenAI and Anthropic are "gambling with our lives." As the discussion raged over Coxon's post, an Anthropic alignment lead responded that AI has a greater than 10% chance of 'killing all humans."
Trump has vehemently clapped back against the push for AI regulation and warnings about extinction.
Over multiple posts to Truth Social this week, Trump called fears of runaway AI a "hoax" and a "scam" and lashed out against public data center pushback. On Monday, he phoned in to Nvidia CEO Jensen Huang's interview at the All-In Summit in Los Angeles to bring the message directly to a tech-focused audience.
Trump said in a video posted on social media by an attendee that anyone opposing data center construction is "playing right into the hands of a lot of people that don't want to see it happen," and that could be China.
"You're right," Huang replied. "We're not going to let that happen, sir."
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