Following a meeting at the White House with President Donald Trump and technology moguls, Speaker Mike Johnson, R-La., on Tuesday pushed back on calls to impose regulations on artificial intelligence, even as news of worrisome AI models hacking into government databases become increasingly common and the public grows more skeptical of the technology.
And while Trump, several members of his Cabinet and Johnson lunched with a group that included Nvidia’s Jensen Huang, Meta’s Mark Zuckerberg, Anthropic’s Dario Amodei, Amazon’s Jeff Bezos and others, the Senate took a pass on even considering a Democratic-backed regulatory bill.