Some of the world’s most powerful technology executives are lobbying U.S. President Donald Trump over artificial intelligence regulation, exposing growing divisions within the industry over how governments should respond to rapidly advancing AI.
Elon Musk, Meta CEO Mark Zuckerberg and Nvidia CEO Jensen Huang have spoken with Trump in recent weeks as debate intensifies over proposals for stronger oversight of the technology, according to the Wall Street Journal.
The discussions followed a proposal unveiled in July by Google DeepMind CEO Demis Hassabis for a new U.S.-led regulatory body that would evaluate the most advanced AI models and potentially coordinate a slowdown in their development if serious dangers emerged.
Anthropic CEO Dario Amodei has supported stronger oversight and recently called for companies developing frontier AI systems to slow their pace as concerns grow about systems becoming increasingly capable and difficult to control.
Musk, Zuckerberg and Huang have pushed back against parts of the proposed regulatory approach, according to WSJ, as competing factions seek to influence the White House’s AI policy.
Musk has nevertheless backed additional safety measures, proposing that leading AI companies test each other’s frontier models before release rather than relying solely on internal evaluations.
Huang has taken a different position, arguing that existing laws are sufficient.
“We don’t need any new laws. We don’t need new regulations,” the Nvidia chief said at Salesforce’s Dreamforce conference in San Francisco on Tuesday.
OpenAI CEO Sam Altman has meanwhile joined Amodei and Musk in calling for a slowdown in the development of the most powerful AI systems amid warnings about potentially catastrophic risks.
Trump has rejected calls for additional regulation, arguing that slowing U.S. AI development could hand an advantage to China.
In a series of Truth Social posts this week, the president described warnings that AI could destroy humanity as a “hoax” and said the U.S. already had sufficient criminal and regulatory powers to police technology companies.
Trump also said the only additional “guardrail” AI needed was a “strong and smart” president and accused proponents of tighter restrictions of participating in a conspiracy against AI and data centres.
The increasingly public dispute comes as researchers and executives warn that frontier AI capabilities are advancing faster than existing safety mechanisms, while opponents of new restrictions argue that excessive regulation could weaken U.S. competitiveness in the global AI race.
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