Trump officials considering AI executive meeting on the sidelines of Xi visit next week特朗普政府官员正在考虑下周在习近平访美期间安排一次人工智能高管会议
Executives of major technology and artificial intelligence companies are expected to travel to Washington, DC, next week for Chinese leader Xi Jinping’s state visit to the White House — and some Trump officials are contemplating a meeting with them on the sidelines of the high-stakes summit, sources familiar with the plans tell CNN.
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Executives of major technology and artificial intelligence companies are expected to travel to Washington, DC, next week for Chinese leader Xi Jinping’s state visit to the White House — and some Trump officials are contemplating a meeting with them on the sidelines of the high-stakes summit, sources familiar with the plans tell CNN.
Administration officials are privately discussing possible logistics for a meeting with the executives about the future of AI and the risks that accompany it, the sources said, though nothing has been finalized or scheduled. It was not immediately clear if President Donald Trump would participate if the meeting materializes, the sources said. Xi is not currently expected to be included.
“The Administration is in regular contact with AI frontier labs, and will continue engaging with the tech industry to cement America’s AI dominance while keeping Americans safe,” a Trump administration official told CNN.
Representatives for Meta, Anthropic, Google and SpaceXAI did not respond to requests for comment.
OpenAI CEO Sam Altman and Nvidia CEO Jensen Huang are among those expected to attend Trump’s state dinner for Xi and could possibly attend such a meeting, the sources told CNN.
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The efforts to arrange a meeting come as AI leaders — including Altman, Anthropic’s Dario Amodei and SpaceXAI’s Elon Musk — have expressed concerns publicly about the dangers the technology poses if it continues to go unchecked, only to see Trump dismiss them, in part over fears that slowing AI growth could benefit China.
“AI taking over the World, destroying Humanity, and all other things bad, is a HOAX,” Trump posted on social media Monday, one in a series of aggressive messages that argued that the calls for more guardrails are part of a “SICK conspiracy.”
Holding a meeting around the summit with Xi — even if the Chinese leader didn’t participate directly — could provide for an awkward setting, given Trump’s and other top Republicans’ focus on edging ahead of Beijing.
But there are hopes among some lawmakers that such a meeting could be the starting point for some sort of agreement between the two countries on AI development to prevent an arms race. Altman told Fortune Magazine last week that he thinks Trump and Xi would get the Nobel Peace Prize together if they could come to some sort of agreement on AI development.
“Even if just the US and China could agree on some shared standards and testing for development of this technology, I think that’d be a wonderful accomplishment that the two of them can deliver,” Altman said.
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House Speaker Mike Johnson had previously said a meeting with AI executives and Trump was in the works, but he told CNN on Tuesday that timing of the meeting near Xi’s visit would be a coincidence.
“We’ve been talking about this for quite some time and all the discussion from the weekend and the first couple days this week prompted us to go ahead and schedule it,” he said.
The speaker declined to say whether the meeting had been scheduled, but told reporters, “I think it’s next week.”
Trump has also spoken about the issue with Nvidia’s Huang, who has been publicly skeptical about AI doomsday predictions.
On Monday, Trump phoned up Huang while he was speaking at a summit in Los Angeles. Huang then put the president on speakerphone for the crowd, with Trump telling the audience he was genetically predisposed to understand the issue because his uncle taught at the Massachusetts Institute of Technology.
“I also have common sense about AI,” Trump added. “The robots will not be taking over. The AI will not be taking over the rest of the world. The whole thing is a hoax.”
CNN’s Ellis Kim and Kevin Liptak contributed to this report.
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据 CNN 报道，知情人士透露，预计下周各大科技和人工智能公司的高管将前往华盛顿特区，参加中国领导人习近平对白宫的国事访问——一些特朗普政府官员正在考虑在这次高风险峰会期间与他们会面。
消息人士称，政府官员正在私下讨论与企业高管就人工智能的未来及其相关风险举行会晤的可能安排，但目前尚未最终确定或安排任何细节。消息人士还表示，如果会晤最终成行，目前尚不清楚特朗普总统是否会出席。习近平主席目前预计不会参加。
一位特朗普政府官员告诉 CNN：“本届政府与人工智能前沿实验室保持定期联系，并将继续与科技行业合作，以巩固美国在人工智能领域的统治地位，同时保障美国人民的安全。”
Meta、Anthropic、Google 和 SpaceXAI 的代表均未回应置评请求。
据 CNN 报道，消息人士称，OpenAI 首席执行官 Sam Altman 和英伟达首席执行官黄仁勋预计将出席特朗普为习近平举办的国宴，并有可能出席此类会面。
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在人工智能领域的领军人物——包括奥特曼、Anthropic公司的达里奥·阿莫迪和SpaceXAI的埃隆·马斯克——公开表达了对人工智能技术若不加以控制将带来的危险的担忧之际，安排此次会面的努力也随之展开。然而，特朗普却对此不屑一顾，部分原因是担心减缓人工智能的发展速度可能会使中国受益。
“人工智能统治世界、毁灭人类以及所有其他坏事都是骗局，”特朗普周一在社交媒体上发帖称，这是他一系列咄咄逼人的信息之一，这些信息声称，要求设置更多防护措施是“邪恶阴谋”的一部分。
考虑到特朗普和其他共和党高层人士都致力于在与北京的竞争中占据上风，即使习近平没有直接参加峰会，围绕峰会举行会议也可能造成尴尬的局面。
但一些议员希望，这样的会晤能成为两国就人工智能发展达成某种协议的起点，从而避免军备竞赛。奥特曼上周告诉《财富》杂志，他认为如果特朗普和习近平能在人工智能发展方面达成某种协议，他们就能共同获得诺贝尔和平奖。
“即使只有美国和中国能够就这项技术的发展达成一些共同的标准和测试，我认为这也是两国能够取得的一项了不起的成就，”奥特曼说。
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众议院议长迈克·约翰逊此前曾表示，他正在筹备与人工智能高管和特朗普会面，但他周二告诉CNN，会面时间恰好在习近平访问附近纯属巧合。
他说：“我们已经讨论这件事很长时间了，周末和本周前几天的讨论促使我们决定安排此事。”
发言人拒绝透露会议是否已安排，但告诉记者：“我想应该是下周。”
特朗普也曾与英伟达的黄仁勋谈及此事，黄仁勋一直公开对人工智能末日预言持怀疑态度。
周一，特朗普在洛杉矶的一个峰会上给黄打了个电话，当时黄正在会上发表讲话。黄随后将总统的电话开到免提，让在场的听众也能听到。特朗普告诉听众，他天生就对这个问题有理解力，因为他的叔叔曾在麻省理工学院任教。
“我对人工智能也有常识，”特朗普补充道。“机器人不会统治世界。人工智能也不会统治世界其他地方。这一切都是骗局。”
CNN的Ellis Kim和Kevin Liptak对本报道亦有贡献。