Trump says U.S. will not curb AI as tech CEOs gather at White House

President Donald Trump said Tuesday the United States will not curb the development of artificial intelligence, even as top AI leaders met with him at the White House. He made the remark while unveiling America.gov, a new chatbot designed to guide citizens through government services. Trump called AI a technology larger than the industrial revolution and pledged to let it grow freely. The White House lunch hosted CEOs Dario Amodei of Anthropic, Greg Brockman of OpenAI, Amazon founder Jeff Bezos and Elon Musk, whose X platform runs the Grok model. Sitting beside Trump were Nvidia chief Jensen Huang, Google chief Sundar Pichai, Meta founder Mark Zuckerberg and Microsoft head Satya Nadella. Vice President JD Vance, Treasury Secretary Scott Bessent, House Speaker Mike Johnson and Secretary of State Marco Rubio also attended. Some of the executives had recently warned about safety risks. Amodei urged a slowdown in AI development, while Musk and OpenAI chief Sam Altman called for stronger safety checks after incidents of errant AI behavior. Huang and Zuckerberg, however, downplayed the danger and emphasized corporate responsibility. Altman later told CNBC that OpenAI had paused a model rollout to address safety concerns. Trump framed the AI race as a U.S.–China competition, claiming America leads and there will be clear winners and losers. He noted a new U.S.–China channel for AI incident handling but said the U.S. need not cooperate further. He also said data centers would expand, suggesting local opposition could push them abroad, and mentioned that developers had agreed to self‑regulate with oversight from the Justice Department and FBI. ## Context AI development is seen as a strategic technology worldwide, prompting governments to balance innovation with safety. The U.S. approach contrasts with calls for tighter controls from some industry leaders.