Trump Summons 6 AI Giants for Lunch: Should AI Hit the Brakes? White House Talks Face-to-Face

Beating AI News Flash: U.S. President Trump and House Speaker Mike Johnson will have lunch with executives from 6 tech companies at the White House to discuss AI risks and government regulation. Expected attendees include Meta CEO Mark Zuckerberg, Anthropic CEO Dario Amodei, OpenAI President Greg Brockman, Google CEO Sundar Pichai, Palantir CEO Alex Karp, and Nvidia CEO Jensen Huang.

Before the meeting, Johnson said the discussion would focus on finding a balance between AI innovation and regulation. He explicitly opposed pausing AI development and also opposed "overregulation," arguing it could put the United States at a disadvantage in AI competition with China. But he also said AI needs greater transparency and a certain degree of government oversight.

The companies at the same table differ greatly in their assessments of AI risks. Anthropic and OpenAI have recently both publicly warned about the serious risks that more powerful AI could bring, while Meta has emphasized more the positive benefits AI can deliver. Trump himself has repeatedly downplayed related risks before, but ahead of this meeting, he separately had dinner with Amodei at the White House.