{"id":850361,"date":"2026-09-17T00:18:18","date_gmt":"2026-09-17T00:18:18","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/us\/850361\/"},"modified":"2026-09-17T00:18:18","modified_gmt":"2026-09-17T00:18:18","slug":"trump-officials-considering-ai-executive-meeting-on-the-sidelines-of-xi-visit-next-week","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/us\/850361\/","title":{"rendered":"Trump officials considering AI executive meeting on the sidelines of Xi visit next week"},"content":{"rendered":"

\n Executives of major technology and artificial intelligence companies are expected to travel to Washington, DC, next week for Chinese leader Xi Jinping\u2019s state visit to the White House \u2014 and some Trump officials are contemplating a meeting with them on the sidelines of the high-stakes summit, sources familiar with the plans tell CNN.\n <\/p>\n

\n Administration officials are privately discussing possible logistics for a meeting with the executives about the future of AI and the risks that accompany it, the sources said, though nothing has been finalized or scheduled. It was not immediately clear if President Donald Trump would participate if the meeting materializes, the sources said. Xi is not currently expected to be included.\n <\/p>\n

\n \u201cThe Administration is in regular contact with AI frontier labs, and will continue engaging with the tech industry to cement America\u2019s AI dominance while keeping Americans safe,\u201d a Trump administration official told CNN.\n <\/p>\n

\n Representatives for Meta, Anthropic, Google and SpaceXAI did not respond to requests for comment.\n <\/p>\n

\n OpenAI CEO Sam Altman and Nvidia CEO Jensen Huang are among those expected to attend Trump\u2019s state dinner for Xi and could possibly attend such a meeting, the sources told CNN. OpenAI Chief Global Affairs Officer Chris Lehane confirmed Altman would attend the dinner in an interview on CBS on Wednesday morning.\n <\/p>\n

\"Nvidia<\/p>\n

\n The efforts to arrange a meeting come as AI leaders \u2014 including Altman, Anthropic\u2019s Dario Amodei and SpaceXAI\u2019s Elon Musk \u2014 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.\n <\/p>\n

\n \u201cAI taking over the World, destroying Humanity, and all other things bad, is a HOAX,\u201d 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 \u201cSICK conspiracy.\u201d\n <\/p>\n

\n Holding a meeting around the summit with Xi \u2014 even if the Chinese leader didn\u2019t participate directly \u2014 could provide for an awkward setting, given Trump\u2019s and other top Republicans\u2019 focus on edging ahead of Beijing.\n <\/p>\n

\n 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. Altman told Fortune Magazine last week that he thinks Trump and Xi would get the Nobel Peace Prize together if they could come to some sort of agreement on AI development.\n <\/p>\n

\n \u201cEven if just the US and China could agree on some shared standards and testing for development of this technology, I think that\u2019d be a wonderful accomplishment that the two of them can deliver,\u201d Altman said.\n <\/p>\n

\"Anthropic<\/p>\n

\n House Speaker Mike Johnson had previously said a meeting with AI executives and Trump was in the works, but he told CNN on Tuesday that timing of the meeting near Xi\u2019s visit would be a coincidence.\n <\/p>\n

\n \u201cWe\u2019ve been talking about this for quite some time and all the discussion from the weekend and the first couple days this week prompted us to go ahead and schedule it,\u201d he said.\n <\/p>\n

\n The speaker declined to say whether the meeting had been scheduled, but told reporters, \u201cI think it\u2019s next week.\u201d\n <\/p>\n

\n Trump has also spoken about the issue with Nvidia\u2019s Huang, who has been publicly skeptical about AI doomsday predictions.\n <\/p>\n

\n On Monday, Trump phoned up Huang while he was speaking at a summit in Los Angeles. Huang then put the president on speakerphone for the crowd, with Trump telling the audience he was genetically predisposed to understand the issue because his uncle taught at the Massachusetts Institute of Technology.\n <\/p>\n

\n \u201cI also have common sense about AI,\u201d Trump added. \u201cThe robots will not be taking over. The AI will not be taking over the rest of the world. The whole thing is a hoax.\u201d\n <\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"Executives of major technology and artificial intelligence companies are expected to travel to Washington, DC, next week for…\n","protected":false},"author":2,"featured_media":850362,"comment_status":"","ping_status":"","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"footnotes":""},"categories":[45],"tags":[182,181,507,74],"class_list":["post-850361","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","has-post-thumbnail","category-artificial-intelligence","tag-ai","tag-artificial-intelligence","tag-artificialintelligence","tag-technology"],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/us\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/850361","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/us\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/us\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/us\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/users\/2"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/us\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=850361"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/us\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/850361\/revisions"}],"wp:featuredmedia":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/us\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media\/850362"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/us\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=850361"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/us\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=850361"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/us\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=850361"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}