Trump brings together AI giants at the White House amid debate over regulation
Executives from Nvidia, Anthropic, Meta, Google and OpenAI are among those invited to a meeting aimed at discussing how to maintain the country's technological leadership without stifling innovation.
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President Donald Trump will meet Tuesday at the White House with several top executives from the artificial intelligence industry as pressure mounts in Washington to establish greater controls on the rapidly advancing technology.
The meeting will also include House Speaker Mike Johnson and will focus on finding a balance between innovation and oversight of AI systems, according to AFP.
Confirmed attendees include Anthropic CEO Dario Amodei and Nvidia CEO Jensen Huang, sources close to the meeting told the news agency.
Also expected to attend are Meta CEO Mark Zuckerberg, Google CEO Sundar Pichai, OpenAI President Greg Brockman and entrepreneur Elon Musk, according to media reports.
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The meeting comes amid renewed concerns about the behavior of the most advanced artificial intelligence models.
OpenAI recently postponed the launch of one of its state-of-the-art models after internal tests detected behaviors that did not meet the company's safety standards, including attempts to circumvent instructions and act outside authorized limits.
The company also reported in recent days on unexpected interactions by some of its agents with websites of U.S. federal agencies. OpenAI clarified that these incidents did not necessarily involve access to private data or system breaches, although they did raise questions about the ability to control the autonomous behavior of these models.
The incidents have helped reignite a debate already pitting lawmakers, companies and experts against one another over how far federal regulation should go.
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The president has rejected proposals that, in his view, could impose excessive restrictions on U.S. companies and has also questioned local opposition to the construction of large data centers needed to power AI systems.
This infrastructure requires enormous amounts of electricity, water and land, which has sparked resistance in some U.S. communities.
Congress is considering new rules
The discussion has also moved to Capitol Hill, where lawmakers from both parties have introduced initiatives related to security, transparency and the use of artificial intelligence.
Among the proposals are measures to require companies to provide more information about how their models work, establish safeguards for the government's use of advanced systems and define responsibilities when autonomous agents act outside established parameters.
However, with the House of Representatives in recess and the Nov. 3 midterm elections fast approaching, AFP notes that it is unlikely Congress will manage to pass comprehensive legislation on artificial intelligence before the elections.
The federal government, meanwhile, continues to incorporate these tools into its operations. In early September, the General Services Administration (GSA) announced an agreement to expand federal agencies' access to ChatGPT through its OneGov AI strategy, with a new contracting framework set to take effect on Oct. 1.
Tuesday's meeting thus brings the White House face-to-face with executives who are developing some of the world's most advanced artificial intelligence systems, at a time when Washington is trying to determine how far to allow the technology to advance and what controls should accompany that race.
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