Trump to Meet AI Executives at White House as Industry Debates Slowing Down

US President Donald Trump is set to meet executives from several leading artificial intelligence companies at the White House on Tuesday, with House Speaker Mike Johnson also expected to take part.

Among those slated to attend are Anthropic CEO Dario Amodei, OpenAI President Greg Brockman, Google CEO Sundar Pichai, Palantir CEO Alex Karp, Meta CEO Mark Zuckerberg and Nvidia CEO Jensen Huang.

The meeting comes amid an intensifying debate within the technology industry over the pace of AI development. Amodei, who has publicly advocated for slowing the frontier of AI research, kept quiet on Capitol Hill on Monday when reporters pressed him about a private dinner with Trump held a day earlier and about Tuesday's gathering.

Speaking at the UN General Assembly earlier, Trump said he was changing the term "artificial intelligence" to "super intelligence" because it is "more accurate." He dismissed global concerns about the technology's effects on humanity, saying that while care was needed, the United States would "encourage it, not rein it in."

"I'm not going to stifle growth of something that will be bigger than the industrial revolution," he said.

Amodei has laid out a three-part plan for pacing AI development, writing on X that Anthropic would unilaterally commit to the first step by giving third-party evaluators permanent, employee-level access to its systems so they can verify safety measures, report incidents and assess model alignment during training.

In an essay accompanying the announcement, Amodei argued that AI could dramatically raise the quality of human life, citing the potential to cure most major diseases within five to ten years, accelerate economic growth and usher in a renaissance of democracy and freedom. But he warned that the technology also carries serious risks, including loss of control over AI systems, misuse for cyberattacks and bioterrorism, and significant economic disruption, which a commercial race to the bottom could worsen.

His call was endorsed by OpenAI CEO Sam Altman, who said on X that he agreed on the need to pace the frontier and that OpenAI would also commit to independent evaluators with employee-like access. Google's Demis Hassabis, Microsoft CEO Satya Nadella and other technology leaders later backed the suggestion, while Nvidia CEO Jensen Huang dismissed fears of a doomsday scenario but advocated responsible AI development.