Tech industry discovers brakes exist, immediately forgets where they parked the car.
President calls CEO during live presentation to reassure investors that the product they're building won't destroy civilization — very normal market signal.
▸ Al Jazeera — Trump calls, interrupts Nvidia CEO to say AI fears are ‘a hoax’CEO puts commander-in-chief on speakerphone at tech conference to announce robots are fine, actually — the kind of stunt that inspires tremendous confidence.
▸ The Verge — Jensen Huang puts Trump on speakerphone onstage to announce robots won’t take over the worldIndustry spent a decade mocking anyone who said 'slow down,' now shocked to discover they meant it about their own work.
▸ Ars Technica — AI leaders want to hit the brakes after years of reckless speedAI executives now advocating slower AI development after spending years accelerating it; job safety inversely correlated with how seriously anyone takes this.