Trump plans ‘very big’ summit to address AI

Bart Jansen

USA TODAY

WASHINGTON – President Donald Trump has planned “a very big meeting” with the head of an artificial intelligence company, Anthropic CEO Dario Amodei; House Speaker Mike Johnson, R-Louisiana; and others amid concerns that the technology could be dangerous if developed too quickly.

Amodei and other industry leaders have voiced concerns about the technology growing faster than it can be controlled, but Trump told Fox News on Sept. 27 he remains confident in the technology and its potential. Trump aims for America to stay ahead of China in its development of the technology.

“We’re about maybe a year and a half up on China,” Trump added. “We’re leading, and we’re building tremendous, trillions of dollars’ worth of

places. And why should we give that up?”

The Sept. 29 meeting – and a dinner Trump said he was having with Amodei on Sept. 27 – come amid growing concerns about the technology.

OpenAI said in July that an autonomous AI agent went rogue during a security test and hacked into another company. Companies including OpenAI,

Google’s DeepMind and Microsoft’s xAI have called for slowing development.

Microsoft co-founder Bill Gates told NBC’s “Meet the Press” on Sept. 27 that his concern about the technology would lead to greater regulation.

“You know, we have created an intelligent species that, in many respects, is already smarter than we are, and over the next several years at kind of exponentially improving level will be insanely smarter than we are,” Gates said.

“I can’t say strongly enough how much society, not just the companies, but every academic think tank, voter, policymaker, need to really engage on how we want to shape this technology.”

Former Anthropic researcher Jacob Coxon warned that AI could kill off people by the end of the decade, prompting U.S. lawmakers to call for new rules to govern the technology.

But Trump has called such warnings a “hoax.”

Gates rejected that argument and said the technology “is certainly powerful enough to drive events that can