Trump and Speaker Johnson to Meet Top AI Executives Amid Calls for Regulation

President Donald Trump and House Speaker Mike Johnson have agreed to convene with senior leaders from the United States’ largest artificial-intelligence firms next week. The gathering is slated for Tuesday at the White House and follows a state dinner in which several CEOs—OpenAI’s Sam Altman, OpenAI President Greg Brockman, Google CEO Sundar Pichai, SpaceXAI chief Elon Musk, Meta CEO Mark Zuckerberg, and Nvidia CEO Jensen Huang—were present.

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Lawmakers from both parties have recently urged swift congressional action after an ex-Anthropic researcher warned of “catastrophic dangers” from rapid AI development. Trump has repeatedly characterized regulatory concerns as unfounded, labeling AI safety fears a “hoax” and asserting that the United States is “leading China by a lot” in the field.

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The Thursday state dinner for Chinese President Xi Jinping provided a rare convergence of AI leadership at the White House. Attendees included the CEOs of OpenAI, Google, Meta, Nvidia, and the founder-CEO of SpaceXAI. Their presence underscores the administration’s willingness to engage directly with industry while resisting formal regulatory measures.

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Johnson’s remarks emphasize a preference for a private, high-level dialogue over immediate legislative action. Both officials framed the meeting as a strategic response to perceived foreign competition rather than a concession to safety concerns.

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• “AI taking over the World, destroying Humanity, and all other things bad, is a HOAX, no different from RUSSIA, RUSSIA, RUSSIA — UKRAINE, UKRAINE, UKRAINE — IMPEACHMENT HOAX #1 — IMPEACHMENT HOAX #2 — and all of the other HOAXES and SCAMS that America was forced to endure.” — Donald Trump, president

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