Nvidia Corp. Chief Executive Officer Jensen Huang, Anthropic PBC head Dario Amodei and Palantir Technologies Inc. CEO Alex Karp are slated to attend a lunch with US President Donald Trump to discuss artificial intelligence risks.
OpenAI President Greg Brockman is also expected to join the Tuesday event, which Trump is holding with House Speaker Mike Johnson. The executives’ plans were confirmed by people familiar with the matter. Semafor and CNBC reported earlier on the names of those planning to attend.
The gathering follows a surge in concern about AI potentially posing a threat to humans. The fears have led some AI leaders, including Amodei, to propose a slowdown in development of the technology.
Amodei met with Trump on Sunday night, bringing together two men on opposite sides of the debate over AI safety. On Monday, Amodei visited Senate Majority Leader John Thune at the US Capitol, but declined to answer reporters’ questions about how his meeting with the president had gone, and neither the White House nor Anthropic has provided a summary of their sitdown.
Earlier this month, Johnson responded to dire warnings coming from within the AI industry by saying that Congress “potentially” will need to impose guardrails, though he cautioned it would likely take “some time” to fashion legislation with broad enough support to pass.
Lawmakers have offered a range of proposals to address AI safety. Republican Representative Nathaniel Moran and Democrat Ted Lieu have proposed a measure requiring developers to have a kill switch for rogue systems, while another bipartisan bill would require independent safety assessments of cutting-edge models. In the Senate, independent Bernie Sanders, who aligns with Democrats, has proposed a ban on developing so-called superintelligent AI that’s powerful enough to evade human control.
In the near term, Congress is unlikely to act on any AI legislation. House lawmakers have already left town for recess and won’t return until after the November midterms, and the Senate is preparing to begin its own preelection recess later this week.
Huang was in Washington last week to join Trump in feting Chinese leader Xi Jinping during a state dinner between the leaders of the world’s two largest economies.
–With assistance from Erik Wasson.
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