Trump to Meet AI Executives as Safety Backlash Puts Guardrails Back on Washington’s Agenda

President Donald Trump and House Speaker Mike Johnson are set to meet top artificial intelligence executives at the White House on September 29, as a wave of safety concerns pushes frontier AI oversight back into the center of U.S. politics. The meeting brings together senior government officials and leaders from major AI and technology companies at a moment when the industry is publicly debating whether the most capable systems should be slowed until stronger safeguards are in place.