Trump to meet Zuckerberg, Amodei and AI titans amid safety concerns: What to expect?

President Donald Trump is set to host a meeting on Tuesday with House Speaker Mike Johnson and tech executives including Meta CEO Mark Zuckerberg and Anthropic boss Dario Amodei to discuss artificial intelligence.

The meeting will take place in the midst of growing calls to regulate AI technology which is evolving at neckbreak pace.

As cited by the sources privy to the matter, it is expected that other AI titans including OpenAI president Greg Brockman and Nvidia's Jensen Huang will also join the meeting with Trump.

Speaking about the agenda of the meeting, there is no official confirmation regarding goals for the meeting, but it is expected that the talks would be focused on finding a middle ground and balance between innovation and oversight as revealed by Johnson.

The calls for oversight stem from concerns about rogue AI agents’ potential to harm humans or, worse, to cause human extinction. When it comes to President Trump, he downplayed such concerns and called them a “hoax” meant to stifle American innovation in competition with China.

"We do not need a moratorium. We do not need to jump in ‌and ⁠hyper-regulate this, because we'll lose the race to China," he said. "Innovation is important to continue, but we have to strike the right balance. That's what the conversation is going to be about."

Recent disclosures from OpenAI and Anthropic regarding autonomous AI agents breaching customer systems without prompting have intensified pressure on the Trump administration to establish federal guardrails.

This unauthorized activity has heightened expert concerns over extreme existential risks, including the possibility of lethal harm within a decade, uniting Democratic and Republican lawmakers in calls for legislative and executive intervention.

Trump also signed an executive order in June requiring AI developers to voluntarily submit "covered frontier models" ​to the US government for review up to 30 days before releasing them to ​trusted partners.

The attendance of the CEO also points to a bigger picture. Dario called for slowing down AI development while Meta Zuckerberg pushed back such calls and supported the development of AI in the competitive tech landscape. Huang also dismissed the AI doomsday scenario while rejecting the need for slowing down.

The meeting comes as last week Trump met Chinese leader Xi Jinping. Both countries announced plans to open an AI communication channel to report AI incidents.

While Trump on social media insisted Xi agreed with his plan to "leave it exactly where it ⁠is," Xi ​appeared to favor a more hands-on approach.

“We have both the capability ​and responsibility to develop and manage AI for good, and ensure that the development of AI is always under human control and serves ​the well-being of the people,” Xi said.