President Donald Trump is hosting a group of tech billionaires for lunch Tuesday, according to multiple outlets, his latest meeting with moguls like Meta chief Mark Zuckerberg and Nvidia CEO Jensen Huang as experts have sounded the alarm over artificial intelligence’s threat to humanity.
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Key Facts
- The lunch will be hosted at the White House on Tuesday, with Anthropic chief Dario Amodei, OpenAI President Greg Brockman and Google CEO Sundar Pichai expected to attend, Politico reported.
- Zuckerberg and Huang’s attendance was reported by CNBC.
- It is unclear if SpaceX chief Elon Musk, who was in attendance for last week’s White House state dinner that included Chinese President Xi Jinping and top tech executives, will be at the lunch, though he is scheduled to attend a “Golden Age” American tech event in Washington, D.C., that Trump has called an “extraordinary gathering of America’s greatest leaders, builders, innovators, and citizens,” according to CBS News.
- Palantir CEO Alex Karp is expected to attend, CNN’s Kaitlin Collins reported, with CBS News also reporting Anthropic co-founder Tom Brown and Palantir chief technology officer Shyam Sankar have been invited.
Forbes Valuation
If Musk ($906.7 billion) is a no-show at the lunch, Zuckerberg may be the most wealthy tech mogul in attendance. The Meta chief’s fortune is estimated to be $245.5 billion as of Monday. Huang follows behind him with an estimated net worth of $198.1 billion. Brockman’s estimated net worth is $25.5 billion.
Key Background
Tuesday’s lunch follows a private dinner between Amodei and Trump on Sunday night. Amodei raised concerns about AI safety after an alignment lead at Anthropic estimated a greater than 10% chance AI could kill all humans within the next decade. Amodei urged tech leaders to “pace the frontier” in a letter, warning of AI impacts including bioterrorism and cyberattacks. OpenAI CEO Sam Altman and Musk echoed Amodei’s call for a slowdown, though Trump has ramped up his support for AI in the last few months, pushing for more data centers on U.S. soil and encouraging top-speed AI development despite the warnings and risks.
Contra
OpenAI CEO Sam Altman will be in San Francisco for OpenAI’s DevDay, the firm’s annual developer conference.
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