Administration officials are currently coordinating logistics for a potential meeting between President Donald Trump’s team and major artificial intelligence executives next week, coinciding with Chinese President Xi Jinping’s state visit to the White House. While plans remain fluid and have yet to be finalized or formally scheduled, sources indicate that discussions center on the future of AI technology and the associated risks. It is currently unclear if the president would personally participate in such a session, and President Xi is not expected to be included.
A spokesperson for the administration stated that officials remain in regular contact with AI frontier laboratories, intending to continue engaging with the technology sector to prioritize American AI dominance while maintaining public safety. Despite these ongoing efforts, representatives for Google, Meta, Anthropic, and SpaceXAI did not provide comments regarding the potential summit.
The scheduling of this discussion arrives as prominent industry figures, such as Sam Altman of OpenAI, Dario Amodei of Anthropic, and Elon Musk of SpaceXAI, have voiced public concerns regarding the unchecked advancement of AI. These warnings have often been dismissed by the president, who has argued that decelerating AI development could inadvertently provide a strategic advantage to China. On Monday, he labeled assertions that artificial intelligence might destroy humanity as a “SICK conspiracy” and a “HOAX.”
Should a meeting proceed alongside the state visit, it would occur against a backdrop of intense focus from Republican leadership on maintaining an edge over Beijing. Some lawmakers remain optimistic that these talks could serve as a foundation for an international agreement on shared standards and testing, potentially preventing a high-stakes arms race. Sam Altman recently told Fortune Magazine that he believes a collaboration on shared development standards would be a significant accomplishment for both the US and China, joking that such an agreement could even warrant a Nobel Peace Prize.
OpenAI CEO Sam Altman and Nvidia CEO Jensen Huang are already confirmed to attend the upcoming state dinner for the Chinese leader and are considered candidates for the executive meeting. Huang, who has maintained skepticism regarding apocalyptic AI predictions, recently spoke with the president during a Los Angeles summit. During that call, which was broadcast on speakerphone, the president remarked that his background at the Massachusetts Institute of Technology provided him with a unique, common-sense understanding of the technology, reiterating his position that robots would not be taking over the world.
House Speaker Mike Johnson, who previously confirmed that a meeting with industry leaders was in development, characterized the timing relative to the state visit as a coincidence. He noted that discussions regarding the meeting have been ongoing for some time, with recent developments prompting the leadership to finalize the scheduling for next week. While he declined to confirm if the event is officially on the calendar, he acknowledged the planning is moving forward. The report also notes that openAI Chief Global Affairs Officer Chris Lehane confirmed Altman would attend the dinner in an interview on CBS on Wednesday morning. The report also notes that the efforts to arrange a meeting come as AI leaders — including Altman, Anthropic’s Dario Amodei and SpaceXAI’s Elon Musk — have expressed concerns publicly about the dangers the technology poses if it continues to go unchecked, only to see Trump dismiss them, in part over fears that slowing AI growth could benefit China. The report also notes that “AI taking over the World, destroying Humanity, and all other things bad, is a HOAX,” Trump posted on social media Monday, one in a series of aggressive messages that argued that the calls for more guardrails are part of a “SICK conspiracy.”. The report also notes that but there are hopes among some lawmakers that such a meeting could be the starting point for some sort of agreement between the two countries on AI development to prevent an arms race.
