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Trump and Speaker Johnson to Meet Tech CEOs on AI on Sept. 29

September 24, 2026 at 18:49 EDT

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President Donald Trump and House Speaker Mike Johnson are set to meet technology chief executives on Sept. 29 about artificial intelligence, as pressure mounts on Washington to regulate the companies building the most advanced models. The date comes from a person familiar with the plans, Axios reported on Sept. 24, in an account it called a developing story. No guest list and no written agenda have been released.

Sept. 29, 2026 · White House

Trump and Johnson sit down with AI chiefs

The president and the House speaker will meet technology chief executives while Washington is pressed to regulate the labs building the most advanced models. No guest list has been released.

Share of voters opposed

Data-center backlash, drawn to scale

Each block is 5 percentage points. Taller means more opposition to the computing sites that power AI.

75%

Democrats

61%

All voters

47%

Republicans

The same poll found nearly 80% of voters under 30 opposed, against 53% of those over 65. Blocks are rounded to 5 points: 61% is drawn as 12 blocks (60) and 47% as 9 blocks (45).

Environmental concern

From 41% last year to 53% now

Adults who are extremely or very concerned about AI's environmental impact. Each block is about 5 points.

41%

2025

53%

2026

A 12-point rise in a year. Among adults 18 to 29, that concern moved from 38% to 60%.

Sept. 29

Day Trump, Johnson, and tech CEOs are set to meet

63%

See at least a moderate risk AI destroys humanity

7–8

People Johnson says are in charge of the leading platforms

>10%

One Anthropic researcher's personal estimate of extinction risk within a decade

Calls to slow down

Pace the models

Amodei, Altman, Musk, and Hassabis have backed slowing capability gains so safety work can catch up, including outside evaluators inside the labs. Sanders says easing off is not the same as hitting the brakes.

No mandated halt

Do not stifle the race

Trump calls extinction warnings a hoax and says growth will not be stifled. Johnson rejects a moratorium because of China, while leaving room for auditors and, in his words, maybe a kill switch or pre-release approval.

What Sept. 29 still has to answer

A meeting is on the calendar. The rules are not.

Self-policing plus law

Johnson's stated mix: companies keep models safe, and federal rules may still follow.

No shared recipe

He says the rival executives do not agree on what the guardrails should be.

Still unpublished

The invitation list and any agenda beyond regulating frontier companies are not public.

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