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Show Caption Elon Musk and OpenAI chief executive Sam Altman are among the tech leaders expected to attend a White House state dinner for Chinese leader Xi Jinping amid growing concerns about the speed of artificial intelligence development. Amazon’s Jeff Bezos, Apple’s Tim Cook, Nvidia’s Jensen Huang and Google’s Sundar Pichai will join Musk and Altman at the dinner on Sept. 24, senior U.S. officials said. The presence of the tech executives comes as President Donald Trump and Xi are expected to discuss AI safety.
Top industry leaders have called for a slowdown in the development of artificial intelligence, arguing that a more measured pace is necessary to ensure safety. Dario Amodei, the chief executive of Anthropic, said last week that more prudence is required in AI research, and called for global cooperation to create guardrails around the technology. Altman and Musk have endorsed Amodei’s call to slow down AI’s development for safety reasons.
Altman will also brief the United Nations Security Council next week about artificial intelligence, according to an OpenAI spokesperson. He is expected to call for more international coordination in the development of AI. Concerns about artificial intelligence have managed to unite figures from opposing sides of the political spectrum in recent days.
Republican political strategist Steve Bannon and Sen. Bernie Sanders, I-Vermont, shared a stage to call for further restrictions on AI. Trump, however, has rejected calls from tech leaders to regulate AI’s development, arguing that the U.S. should not let China win in a race for AI supremacy.
“We’re leading China on AI,” he said on Sept. 13. “We’re the most sophisticated country in the world and frankly I want to keep it that way, because whoever wins AI wins.” Xi’s summit in Washington with Trump will be the Chinese leader’s first visit to the U.S. in nearly three years. The two leaders last met in May, when Xi feted Trump with a state banquet in Beijing.
Days before Xi arrives in Washington for the summit with Trump, Treasury Secretary Scott Bessent and Chinese Vice Premier He Lifeng will discuss AI safety during a meeting in New York on Sept. 20. Facebook Twitter Email
Source: USA Today
