President Trump Hosts Tech Giants for AI Dinner as Musk Sits Out
President Trump Hosts Tech Giants for AI Dinner as Musk Sits Out
WASHINGTON – President Donald Trump convened a high-profile dinner for leading tech CEOs at the White House on Thursday night, focusing on the burgeoning field of artificial intelligence. The exclusive gathering included industry luminaries such as Microsoft co-founder Bill Gates, Apple CEO Tim Cook, and Meta CEO Mark Zuckerberg, alongside a dozen other executives from major AI and technology firms.
Notably absent from the esteemed guest list was Elon Musk, a former close ally of President Trump. Musk, whom Trump had tasked with leading the Department of Government Efficiency, had a public falling out with the President earlier this year.
Originally slated for the newly paved Rose Garden, the dinner was relocated to the White House State Dining Room due to inclement weather. The event followed a Thursday afternoon meeting of the White House’s new Artificial Intelligence Education task force, chaired by First Lady Melania Trump, which saw participation from several of the tech leaders.
“The robots are here. Our future is no longer science fiction,” the First Lady declared, emphasizing both the potential and peril of AI. She urged responsible management of AI’s growth, likening it to raising children with “watchful guidance.”
The guest list also featured Google CEO Sundar Pichai, IBM chairman Arvind Krishna, Google founder Sergey Brin, Microsoft CEO Satya Nadella, OpenAI’s Sam Altman and Greg Brockman, and Oracle CEO Safra Catz, among others. The gathering underscores President Trump’s recent engagement with AI, despite his earlier complaints about misleading AI-generated content. He has embraced AI-created imagery online, even after a recent incident where he blamed AI for a video his team had initially confirmed.
The outreach to these tech executives comes amidst deepening divides within the Republican Party regarding the industry. Senator Josh Hawley, a key Trump ally, delivered sharp criticism of the tech sector on Thursday, particularly regarding AI regulation, during a conservative conference in Washington.
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