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President Trump says tech companies can self-regulate the risks of artificial intelligence.

And he signed an executive order officially dubbing the technology superintelligence for government agencies.

This came after the president met with dozens of top leaders in the AI field on Tuesday, the same day he also rolled out an AI-driven website, america.gov, to help people navigate government services.

NPR's White House correspondent, Emily Feng, is with us to explain this.

So Emily, what happened at this meeting?

So there was no press in the meeting, but Trump came out afterwards, and he told the press how people had agreed companies could self-regulate on AI.

He argued if companies break the law, we have the Department of Justice or the FBI that could rein them in.

Though, to put a finer point on that, if that were to happen, the US would need to put AI laws on the books, and that did not happen at this lunch.

Instead, Trump posted a one-page document that CEOs from six of the big AI companies that were there signed, and this agreement says companies would broadly monitor their models and make sure they do not hack into other systems, but it offered no details on how this would work.

They don't want anything to go wrong.

I mean, their companies are at stake.

If something goes wrong, their companies are at stake.

They're not gonna let that happen.

This is going to be all for the good, and we're gonna have it g- be nice and safe, and they're really gonna be policing each other.

Asked if this was enforceable, Trump said it was, quote, "morally binding." And so the question still remains whether powerful private companies can be trusted to follow through in perpetuity.

But it's morally binding.

That might be enough.

Now, which, uh, companies, uh, were participating in this meeting?

There were about 30 tech executives present, and I wanna note the people who were seated right next to Trump during this meeting.

There were NVIDIA's Jensen Huang, Elon Musk, and also CEOs from Meta, chip designer AMD, uh, their CEO, Lisa Su, is actually the only female executive invited, as well as people from Amazon and Google.

And notably, there were two representatives from Anthropic at the meeting, and they included co-founder Dario Amodei, who Trump does not have the best relationship with.

If you remember, the Pentagon has effectively banned Anthropic.

They've called it a supply chain risk, which came after the company objected to the potential use of its products for autonomous weapons.

And Amodei has been one of the most outspoken entrepreneurs for more AI regulation in the last couple of weeks, and he was notably excluded from a state dinner with Chinese leader Xi Jinping last week, though his competitors from OpenAI were there.

And I'll note that Anthropic is a financial supporter of NPR.