The statement comes as pressure is mounting on the US administration to address risks posed by AI, after OpenAI and Anthropic reported that their AI agents had gone rogue and hacked into other companies’ systems. The US government has ruled out working with China on artificial intelligence. The US President Donald Trump made it clear that he does not want to cooperate with China on AI governance. Trump’s reasoning is that it would help Beijing catch up with American companies. His comments come less than a week after Chinese President Xi Jinping’s high-profile US visit last week.
The gathering at White House included a who’s who of the tech world, including Amodei, CEO of SpaceX and Tesla Elon Musk, Nvidia CEO Jensen Huang, Meta CEO Mark Zuckerberg, Amazon founder Jeff Bezos, Alphabet CEO Sundar Pichai, Microsoft CEO Satya Nadella, Advanced Micro Devices CEO Lisa Su and OpenAI President Greg Brockman.