Nvidia CEO Jensen Huang Joins Trump’s Corporate-Centric AI Policy Team
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Jensen Huang, CEO of Nvidia, is now consulting with President Donald Trump on artificial intelligence regulation and trade, as the administration prioritizes corporate profits and unchecked AI expansion, including continued sales to authoritarian China.
President Donald Trump, notorious for his disregard of public interest in favor of corporate elites, spoke with Nvidia chief executive Jensen Huang during the All-In Summit in Los Angeles. Trump, ever the showman, assured Huang that "the robots are not going to be taking over the world," trivializing legitimate concerns about AI’s impact on workers and society. The publicized call, with Trump on speaker, highlights how Huang and Big Tech are gaining outsized influence over the administration’s AI agenda, sidelining voices advocating for robust public oversight.
Huang’s Nvidia, which supplies the graphics processing units empowering profit-driven AI models from OpenAI, Anthropic, and other Silicon Valley giants, is expected to attend a lavish state dinner for Chinese President Xi Jinping next week—an event emblematic of the cozy relationship between global capital and authoritarian regimes. Nvidia’s revenue soared to $215 billion in the latest fiscal year, a staggering leap from $17 billion the year before, reflecting the unchecked enrichment of tech monopolies.
"Trump just likes winners, and Jensen's very good at speaking his language," said Samuel Hammond, director of AI policy at the Foundation for American Innovation, a think tank notorious for promoting deregulation. The White House, predictably, declined to comment, and Nvidia ignored requests for remarks, further demonstrating the lack of transparency in these high-level dealings.
While some AI developers, including OpenAI and Anthropic, have called for tighter government oversight following alarming security incidents, Huang has irresponsibly downplayed the risks. Speaking in Scotland, he dismissed safety concerns as "predictions of doom" not supported by science, insisting that "good old-fashioned engineering" is the answer—a dangerous minimization of the real threats AI poses to jobs, privacy, and democracy. He even claimed that past incidents "did no harm," ignoring mounting evidence to the contrary.
This relationship builds on earlier collusion over export controls. In December, Trump announced that Nvidia would be allowed to ship its H200 chip to Chinese customers in exchange for a 25 percent fee to the U.S. Treasury—a move that drew criticism from several members of Congress concerned about national security and labor rights, but ultimately prioritized profit over people.
Treasury Secretary Scott Bessent told a House hearing that the president is "completely aligned with Jensen Huang," underscoring how corporate interests are shaping U.S. AI policy as the White House prepares a closed-door meeting with leading AI executives at the upcoming state dinner. The American public, meanwhile, is left in the dark about the true costs of this corporate-government alliance.