WASHINGTON — As he dismisses doomsday warnings from artificial intelligence as a “hoax,” President Donald Trump will host nearly 20 tech titans at a White House luncheon Tuesday to discuss the technology’s rapid evolution.
The group includes a who’s who of the tech world, including SpaceX and Tesla CEO Elon Musk, Nvidia CEO Jensen Huang, Meta CEO Mark Zuckerberg, Amazon founder Jeff Bezos, Alphabet CEO Sundar Pichai, Microsoft CEO Satya Nadella, Anthropic CEO Dario Amodei, Advanced Micro Devices CEO Lisa Su and OpenAI Chairman Greg Brockman, according to a House official. White.
Trump hosts lunch with Speaker Mike Johnson, R-La. Vice President JD Vance, Commerce Secretary Howard Lutnick, Treasury Secretary Scott Bessent and White House Chief of Staff Susie Wiles will also be in attendance.
Earlier Tuesday, Trump unveiled America.gov, a website with an AI-powered tool intended to serve as a “one-stop shop” for Americans navigating government services.
In recent weeks, tech executives on the AI frontier, including Amodei and OpenAI’s Sam Altman, have sounded the alarm about the potential dangers of AI, calling for greater government oversight and global cooperation in regulating the technology.
Trump dismissed the existential warnings, arguing that American technology companies must continue to innovate and keep their foot on the accelerator to stay ahead of China in the AI arms race.
Trump is not expected to stray from this AI message, even as dire warnings about humans’ potential loss of control over self-improving AI systems – known as recursive self-improvement, or RSI – become louder and more frequent.
“Whoever wins AI…whoever wins IS, whoever wins superintelligence, wins. That’s the group that wins, and we’re now way ahead of China and everyone else, and we’re going to keep it that way,” Trump said in his speech last week to the United Nations General Assembly.
“I’m not going to stifle the growth of something that will be bigger than the industrial revolution – many say bigger than the industrial revolution or the Internet itself – and we will be very careful,” he said.
Johnson, a close Trump ally, began pushing for an AI summit with some of the biggest names in tech shortly after whistleblower Jacob Coxon made international headlines by resigning from Claude maker Anthropic. Coxon warned that those building these systems believe they could “kill us all by the end of the decade.”
Johnson made clear that he does not think Washington should take a heavy-handed approach to regulating AI, arguing that existing laws and regulations can be applied to AI companies and suggesting that they should be held legally responsible if their products cause harm.
During a Monday appearance on Fox Business, Johnson praised Trump for bringing AI leaders together in one room.
“They have a corporate responsibility, like any business, to create safe products, right? And there are product liability laws that apply and a maze of federal regulations on all of that already. We don’t need a moratorium,” he said.
While lawmakers have introduced dozens of AI-related bills in recent years, the Republican Party-controlled Congress shows no urgency to act on the issue. House members are not expected to return to Washington until after the Nov. 3 midterm elections, and senators could leave town as soon as this week.
“We don’t need to go in and hyperregulate this, because we will lose the race to China,” Johnson said on Fox Business. “Continuing innovation is important, but we need to find the right balance. »
Senate Majority Leader John Thune, R-S.D., said he would not attend AI’s luncheon, but he met privately with Amodei at the Capitol Monday evening.
“I hope it’s productive,” Thune said of Tuesday’s summit.
Before lunch at the White House, Trump gathered with Vance, Cabinet members and a handful of technology leaders a few blocks from the Andrew W. Mellon Auditorium to unveil America.gov, an AI-powered web portal and chatbot designed to improve Americans’ experience accessing federal resources.
A White House official called the tool “a new front door for the federal government that will provide a one-stop shop for Americans looking for federal government information and resources that are currently spread across a maze of various agency websites.”
The National Design Studio, the year-old agency launched by Trump and led by Airbnb co-founder Joe Gebbia, helped create the project. Trump was introduced by self-help author and motivational speaker Tony Robbins.
“Today we are launching something that is not just a website; it is a restoration of America’s founding promise and a reinvention of your government for the 21st century and beyond,” Trump said.
“Instead of forcing citizens to search through the endless maze of tens of thousands of websites and terrible government rules… you will now have a front door for every question,” Trump said. “Everything will be resolved easily and quickly, a digital home built around your times and your life.”
Trump compared the site to chatbots like Grok, Gemini and ChatGPT and a White House official told NBC News that America.gov uses Gemini and Grok.
Trump also suggested he would “terminate” America.gov if it were ever hacked.
It “can’t, in theory, be hacked. And when they find a way to do it, we’ll put a stop to it, okay?” » Trump said. “Because they always find a way, right?”
In addition to Trump and Vance, Secretary of State Marco Rubio, Agriculture Secretary Brooke Rollins, Energy Secretary Chris Wright and Centers for Medicare and Medicaid Services Administrator Mehmet Oz were in attendance.
Elon Musk, CEO of SpaceX and Tesla, Jensen Huang, CEO of Nvidia, Tom Brown, co-founder of Anthropic, and Dave Limp, CEO of Blue Origin, were also expected, according to the White House.
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