Sam Altman to Attend Trump-Xi State Dinner as AI Regulation Fight Intensifies
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Updated · CNBC · Sep 16
Sam Altman to Attend Trump-Xi State Dinner as AI Regulation Fight Intensifies
3 articles · Updated · CNBC · Sep 16
Summary
Sam Altman is expected at President Donald Trump’s state dinner for Xi Jinping in Washington next week, putting OpenAI at the center of a high-stakes U.S.-China AI discussion.
AI is likely to be a major topic as Washington and Silicon Valley clash over regulation, after researchers warned of existential risks and Anthropic CEO Dario Amodei urged a slowdown in frontier model development.
That debate has split prominent industry figures: Altman, Amodei and Elon Musk have lined up against Trump and tech leaders including Nvidia CEO Jensen Huang and Meta CEO Mark Zuckerberg.
Chinese open-weight models’ rapid gains have added urgency to the summit, narrowing the gap with U.S. frontier labs and raising the stakes for policy and commercial talks.