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WASHINGTON, After privately huddling with nearly 20 tech titans at a White House lunch Tuesday, President Donald Trump continued to push back on calls for new safety regulations for artificial intelligence, saying there was agreement in the room that there should be “tremendous self-regulation” by companies.
Key facts
- In recent weeks, tech executives on the AI frontier, including Anthropic’s Dario Amodei and OpenAI’s Sam Altman, have sounded the alarm about the potential dangers of AI, calling for greater
- Meanwhile, Johnson said after the meeting that people at the lunch had signed a “White House Accord on Super Intelligence
- The National Design Studio, the year-old agency launched by Trump and led by Airbnb co-founder Joe Gebbia, helped create the project
- In addition to Trump and Vance, Secretary of State Marco Rubio, Agriculture Secretary Brooke Rollins, Homeland Security Secretary Markwayne Mullin, Energy Secretary Chris Wright and Centers
Summary
“There’s a belief that there should be tremendous self-regulation, and we automatically have regulation with the Department of Justice, the FBI, all of that,” said Trump, flanked by tech and government leaders. “But the self-regulation is important,” he said. Moments later, outside the White House, Trump was asked whether anything would persuade him to back tougher AI guardrails or a slowdown of the industry. “I’m seeing tremendous self-policing, and they understand that they have to self-police,” he told reporters.