Trump urges AI companies to self-regulate after White House meeting
President Donald Trump is urging leading artificial intelligence companies to regulate themselves after tech executives gathered at the White House amid growing concerns about the technology's rapid advancement.
(NBC)- President Donald Trump is urging leading artificial intelligence companies to regulate themselves after tech executives gathered at the White House amid growing concerns about the technology’s rapid advancement.
“There should be tremendous self-regulation,” Trump said after Tuesday’s meeting.
Trump and executives from leading technology companies signed a voluntary safety accord calling for internal controls and monitoring, along with independent external assessments of company safeguards. Trump described the agreement as “morally binding.”
Nvidia CEO Jensen Huang said he believes companies can balance technological advancement with safety.
“There’s no conflict between innovation, technology, and safety,” Huang said.
Anthropic CEO Dario Amodei has called for government regulation and an industry-wide slowdown as increasingly powerful AI systems are developed.
“The technology has very real risks, and you know, the mechanism how we address those risks is still under discussion,” Amodei said.
Trump has emphasized keeping the United States ahead of China in the AI race while resisting calls for greater government regulation. He said federal law enforcement agencies could respond to bad actors who misuse the technology.
Trump also signed an executive order directing executive branch agencies to use the terms “Super Intelligence” and “SI” instead of “Artificial Intelligence” and “AI” in official communications and other non-statutory documents.
“We don’t want to hear artificial because it’s not artificial,” Trump said. “It’s very powerful. It’s very brilliant.”
The push toward industry self-regulation comes as concerns continue over the potential risks of advanced AI, including reports of AI agents accessing systems without authorization and questions about the technology’s effect on jobs.
