Elon Musk and Jeff Bezos joined other titans of the computing industry for a power lunch at the White House on Tuesday to discuss the future of AI safety. President Trump and House Speaker Mike Johnson hosted 31 participants, including the CEOs of Nvidia, Meta, Google, Microsoft, AMD, Broadcom, Anthropic and Palantir, as well as OpenAI President Greg Brockman. The group focused on coordinating an industry-led strategy to maintain American competitiveness against China, with Speaker Johnson advocating for voluntary guardrails to "calm the nerves" of safety critics.
The gathering comes as some experts warn that AI firms are failing to control autonomous agents, and Gary Marcus has criticized the exclusive focus on CEOs as "regulatory capture." While Johnson rejected a development moratorium, he noted that the Department of Justice may intervene if industry progress goes "awry." The meeting also featured Anthropic CEO Dario Amodei, whose invitation followed a private dinner with Trump that resolved months of tension with the administration.
Key sources
- SOURCE@axios“EXCLUSIVE: The full list of attendees at White House AI lunch”x.com
- SOURCE@politico“Mike Johnson backs voluntary regulation to ‘calm the nerves’ on AI safety”x.com
- SOURCE@andrewcurran_“We do not need a moratorium. We do not need to jump in and hyperregulate this because we'll lose the race to China.”x.com
- SUPPORT@choblin29“Johnson said the DOJ may have a role 'if things go awry.'”x.com
- SUPPORT@garymarcus“always the CEOs, very rarely independent scientists. and that, my friends, is how regulatory capture works”x.com
- SUPPORT@jeffladish“AI companies are failing to control their increasingly resourceful and autonomous agents.”x.com
- SUPPORT@andrewcurran_“Up until this morning Dario was not going to be invited to the big tech CEO meeting at the White House tomorrow. But he has now been invited.”x.com
- SUPPORT@stocksavvyshay“seeing Dario do two White House meals in three days after months of tension with the Trump administration”x.com