In a moment that blurred the line between governance and spectacle, Donald Trump called Nvidia CEO Jensen Huang live onstage in Los Angeles, using the interruption to publicly reject calls for AI safety regulation. The gesture was less a conversation than a declaration — an alignment between executive power and the semiconductor industry that sits at the heart of the AI era. It signals that under this administration, the pace of technological transformation will not be slowed by the caution of researchers or ethicists, though history reminds us that the consequences of powerful technologies ra