In a move that blurs the line between governance and industry alliance, Donald Trump called Nvidia CEO Jensen Huang during a technology summit and declared AI safety fears a 'hoax,' casting himself publicly as a 'Hoax Buster.' The gesture — amplified to a room full of tech leaders via speakerphone — was less a policy announcement than a philosophical signal: that caution itself is the enemy of progress. It places the administration in direct tension with a growing body of researchers and ethicists who argue that some risks, precisely because they are novel, demand anticipatory governance rathe