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Mark Zuckerberg and Anthropic chief executive Dario Amodei are among the technology executives due to meet Donald Trump on Tuesday, CNBC reports. The meeting brings two prominent AI leaders into a discussion at a time when Amodei, Sam Altman and Elon Musk have called for a slower pace of frontier AI development.
Why it mattersThe attendee names add a useful detail to an already reported meeting, but say nothing yet about its agenda or outcome.
Discuss: Should AI leaders who favour slowing frontier development help shape government policy from inside the room, or risk lending political cover to an approach they oppose?
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Watch Desk Update What changedAlphabet confirmed that chief executive Sundar Pichai will attend the Tuesday lunch, while CNBC says Nvidia chief Jensen Huang is also expected. Reuters, citing a person familiar with the plans, reports that OpenAI president Greg Brockman will be there too.
The White House event is broader than the lunch: a White House official told CNBC it will run all day and include panels on AI, energy, space and other topics, alongside the announcement of a new federal information and resources website. Anthropic co-founder and chief compute officer Tom Brown is also expected at the event, according to a person familiar with the plans.
The gathering follows Dario Amodei’s private dinner with Donald Trump on Sunday.
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- Zuckerberg, Amodei among tech executives set to meet Trump Tuesday - CNBC: CNBC reports additional executives expected at the Tuesday lunch and event, and describes an all-day programme with AI panels and a federal website announcement; Reuters separately reports OpenAI president Greg Brockman will attend.
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Watch Desk Update What changedDonald Trump said at the UN General Assembly that the US would “encourage” AI rather than “rein it in”, according to an ANI report carried by India Gazette. The remarks add a clear statement of the president’s approach to AI policy to the developing account of the White House meeting.
ANI’s account also says Trump argued that “artificial intelligence” should be called “super intelligence”, which he described as more accurate. It reports that he dismissed global concerns about the technology while saying the US had to be careful.
The same report says Dario Amodei has advocated slowing the pace of frontier AI development and cites his proposal to give third-party evaluators permanent, employee-level access to Anthropic’s systems. That puts a specific policy disagreement alongside the meeting: whether to prioritise rapid development or stronger oversight.
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- Anthropic CEO Dario Amodei avoids comment as AI tech czars reach DC for key meeting with Trump - indiagazette.com: ANI, in a report carried by India Gazette, says Trump favoured encouraging AI development rather than reining it in, and says Amodei has proposed permanent third-party evaluator access to Anthropic’s systems.
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Watch Desk Update What changedANI reports that Sam Altman endorsed Dario Amodei’s proposal for third-party evaluators to have permanent, employee-level access to Anthropic’s systems. That adds a specific point of support to the existing account of the White House AI meeting and the debate around the pace of frontier development.
The report says Altman also indicated that OpenAI would make the same commitment. It does not give further details here about how that access would work or when OpenAI might put it in place.
ANI additionally reports that Google DeepMind chief Demis Hassabis, Microsoft chief executive Satya Nadella and other technology leaders backed Amodei’s suggestion. The account does not specify what those endorsements entail, so agreement should not be mistaken for a shared plan.
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- Anthropic CEO Dario Amodei avoids comment as AI tech czars reach DC for key meeting with Trump - Devdiscourse: ANI reports that Sam Altman backed Dario Amodei’s third-party evaluator-access proposal and indicated OpenAI would make the same commitment; it also reports support from other technology leaders.
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