President Donald Trump convened a lunch with prominent technology executives at the White House, advocating for "tremendous self-regulation" of artificial intelligence. During the gathering, Trump announced his intention to sign executive orders that would officially rename AI as “super intelligence” in government communications.
Seated between industry leaders including Meta's Mark Zuckerberg, Nvidia's Jensen Huang, Elon Musk, and Google's Sundar Pichai, Trump emphasized the importance of industry-led oversight. "There’s a belief that there should be tremendous self-regulation," Trump told reporters. "We automatically have regulation with the Department of Justice, the FBI, all of that. But the self-regulation is very important."
The lunch, which also included figures such as Jeff Bezos, Dario Amodei of Anthropic, and Alex Karp of Palantir, was described by the President as a meeting where there was "a lot of commonality." He indicated that a statement summarizing the discussions and outcomes would be released shortly.
The meeting took place against a backdrop of growing discussions surrounding the rapid advancements and societal implications of artificial intelligence. The call for self-regulation suggests an approach where the tech industry takes a leading role in setting standards and ethical guidelines for AI development and deployment. The rebranding of AI to "super intelligence" signals a potential shift in how the administration frames and discusses the technology.