LOS ANGELES, Sept. 29 (Our Los Angeles) — A planned White House meeting with artificial intelligence executives puts a policy question before President Donald Trump and House Speaker Mike Johnson: How much oversight should the U.S. government apply to AI without slowing its development? For companies building the technology, the answer could shape future federal rules. The meeting itself is not a policy decision.
Trump and Johnson planned to meet tech leaders in Washington on September 29, according to a person familiar with the plans who spoke to Reuters. Johnson, a Republican, said in a Monday interview with Fox Business that the discussion would focus on balancing innovation with oversight.
“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,” Johnson said. He also said safety, transparency and oversight matter. His remarks place competition with China alongside concerns about how AI is developed and monitored, but do not set out a specific regulatory proposal.
Johnson suggested the Justice Department could have a role if problems arise. “But what we need before we get to that stage is transparency, and we need some oversight,” he said. That distinction matters: He described a possible government response, not an enforcement action announced for the meeting.
Meta’s Mark Zuckerberg, Anthropic’s Dario Amodei, OpenAI’s Greg Brockman and Nvidia’s Jensen Huang were among the executives expected to attend, Reuters reported, citing people familiar with the plans. Their expected attendance shows which major AI companies could be part of the discussion; it does not establish who ultimately took part. Johnson’s stated aim leaves the central policy question open: what form oversight would take while the administration seeks to keep AI development moving.
