Donald Trump set to host executives of AI firms at White House to address potential risks of the technology
The heads of OpenAI, Anthropic, Nvidia, Google and Meta are expected to attend a White House meeting with US President Donald Trump on artificial intelligence.
US President Donald Trump will meet with tech executives including Meta’s Mark Zuckerberg, Google’s Sundar Pichai and Anthropic’s Dario Amodei to discuss artificial intelligence as pressure mounts for the president to address the potential risks of the technology.
Nvidia chief executive Jensen Huang and OpenAI president Greg Brockman are also expected to attend, according to separate people familiar with the planning.
US House Speaker Mike Johnson will also be there, as will Palantir’s Alex Karp, according to a company spokesperson.
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Trump will meet with the executives weeks after OpenAI and Anthropic reported their AI agents had gone rogue and hacked into customers’ systems without instructions to do so.
The intrusions prompted researchers to warn that some AI developers believe the technology could kill humans within a decade, fueling calls for action from both Democratic and Republican politicians.
The gathering on Tuesday will focus on finding a balance between innovation and oversight, Republican Johnson said on Monday as concerns about rogue AI agents’ potential to harm humans have seeped into the public consciousness, boosting calls for regulation.
Trump has called the fears of AI’s threat to humanity a “hoax”.
The White House did not respond to a request for comment about the goals or topics for the meeting.
Trump has repeatedly downplayed concerns about AI, stressing the importance of maintaining the country’s competitive edge over China and pointing to the Justice Department as a pre-existing guardrail for AI.
Johnson echoed those sentiments in an interview with Fox Business Network on Monday.
“We do not need a moratorium. We do not need to jump in and hyper-regulate this because we’ll lose the race to China,” he said.
“The innovation is important to continue but we have to strike the right balance. That’s what the conversation is going to be about.”
Anthropic’s Amodei has been vocal about the threat of AI, telling the United Nations Security Council on September 23 that if managed poorly, “AI could be a risk to humanity as a whole”.
That warning resurfaced in the company’s IPO prospectus, Reuters reported on Monday, even as Anthropic seeks a $US2 trillion ($A2.9 trillion) valuation for a technology that it says could outstrip industrialisation in terms of its imprint on the global economy.
Under an executive order signed by Trump in June, AI developers are asked to voluntarily submit “covered frontier models” to the US government for review up to 30 days before releasing them to trusted partners.
