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'Taking over the world': Trump says he hopes AI bosses know what they're doing
Published by Global Banking and Finance Review
Posted on September 18, 2025
2 min readLast updated: January 21, 2026
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Published by Global Banking and Finance Review
Posted on September 18, 2025
2 min readLast updated: January 21, 2026
During his UK visit, Trump expressed concerns about AI's global influence and signed a Tech Prosperity Deal with Nvidia to advance AI and tech in the UK.
CHEQUERS, England (Reuters) -U.S. President Donald Trump said on Thursday artificial intelligence was taking over the world and he hoped tech bosses know what they were doing, because he didn't.
Trump and British Prime Minister Keir Starmer hosted business and tech leaders including chipmaker Nvidia's CEO Jensen Huang as part of the president's second state visit to Britain.
Departing from a script that celebrated the relationship between the two countries, a new tech partnership and hundreds of billions of dollars in investments, Trump acknowledged that he was limited in what he knew about AI.
"This will create new government, academic and private sector cooperation in areas such as AI, which is taking over the world... I'm looking at you guys. You're taking over the world. Jensen, I don't know what you're doing here," Trump said, addressing the Nvidia boss, to laughter from Starmer and the audience.
"I hope you're right. All I can say is, we both hope you're right."
Trump and Starmer then signed a "Tech Prosperity Deal" on joint efforts to develop AI models for healthcare, expand quantum computing capabilities and streamline civil nuclear projects.
As part of the deal, Nvidia said it would deploy 120,000 graphics processing units across Britain - its largest rollout in Europe to date.
Before putting pen to paper, Trump jokingly asked Treasury Secretary Scott Bessent "should I sign this?"
"Are you sure Scott? If the deal's no good, I'm blaming you, Scott," Trump said.
(Reporting by Steve Holland and Andrew MacAskill, writing by Alistair Smout, Editing by Franklin Paul)
Trump stated that artificial intelligence was taking over the world and expressed hope that tech leaders knew what they were doing.
The Tech Prosperity Deal is an agreement signed by Trump and Starmer to develop AI models for healthcare and expand quantum computing capabilities.
Nvidia announced it would deploy 120,000 graphics processing units across Britain, marking its largest rollout in Europe to date.
Tech leaders included chipmaker Nvidia's CEO Jensen Huang, among others, who participated in discussions about AI and technology.
Trump maintained a light-hearted tone, jokingly asking Treasury Secretary Scott Bessent if he should sign the deal and expressing that he would blame him if it was no good.
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