LOS ANGELES, Sept. 29 (Our Los Angeles) — A planned White House meeting in Washington between President Donald Trump, House Speaker Mike Johnson and technology executives will put a central U.S. policy question on the table: how to oversee artificial intelligence without slowing its development. Johnson said Monday that the discussion would seek a balance, but he did not outline a specific rule or proposal.
“The innovation is important to continue, but we have to strike the right balance,” Johnson said in a Fox Business interview. He rejected both a moratorium on AI development and what he called excessive regulation, arguing that the United States could lose ground to China.
The meeting was planned for Sept. 29, according to a person familiar with the plans who spoke to Reuters. Meta’s Mark Zuckerberg, Anthropic’s Dario Amodei, OpenAI’s Greg Brockman and Nvidia’s Jensen Huang were among those expected, according to people familiar with the plans. Their attendance was not confirmed in those accounts.
Johnson’s remarks show where the policy discussion stands before the meeting: he has identified safety, transparency and oversight as priorities, while ruling out a broad pause in development. That leaves the terms of any government action unresolved. Johnson said the Justice Department might have a role if problems arise, but called for transparency and oversight before that point.
