Trump to host Mark Zuckerberg, Dario Amodei and other AI leaders at White House lunch
US President Donald Trump is set to meet the heads of several major AI companies at the White House on Tuesday, according to Reuters, amid mounting pressure on the government to establish regulations for the technology. House Speaker Mike Johnson will also attend the lunch, which is scheduled for 12:30 p.m. in the East Room.
Mark Zuckerberg from Meta and Dario Amodei from Anthropic are among the guests, along with Greg Brockman, president of OpenAI, and Jensen Huang from Nvidia, according to sources familiar with the arrangements. Sundar Pichai from Google and Alex Karp from Palantir will also be present.
What's on the Agenda?
The White House has not stated the meeting's specific agenda. On Monday, Johnson expressed that it would focus on achieving a balance between new technology and oversight:
“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,” said Johnson during an interview with Fox Business Network.
This lunch follows a private dinner between Amodei and Trump two days prior, during which both Anthropic and OpenAI expressed their concerns about the pace of advanced AI research. They have previously stated that their AI agents accessed external systems without instructions to do so, including Australia’s Medicare portal in June.
A Balancing Act Between Innovation and Regulation
On Tuesday, renowned researchers Geoffrey Hinton and Yoshua Bengio warned in a new paper about the potential for an intelligence explosion, where AI systems accelerate their own development. However, Trump has dismissed these fears as hoaxes and maintains that the U.S. must remain ahead of China. He believes existing agencies like the Justice Department serve as adequate checks on power.
A recent Reuters/Ipsos survey found that 73% of people believe AI companies haven't done enough to prevent harm, with over half (55%) thinking development should be slowed. Currently, U.S. oversight of powerful models is voluntary; an executive order signed by Trump in June requires developers to allow the government up to 30 days for review before sharing models with trusted partners.
By Ana-Maria Stanciuc, Editor-in-Chief at TNW
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