Attendees included OpenAI’s Sam Altman, Nvidia’s Jensen Huang, Palantir’s Alex Karp, IBM’s Arvind Krishna, X’s Elon Musk, Microsoft’s Satya Nadella, Google’s Sundar Pichai and Meta’s Mark Zuckerberg. Senator Chuck Schumer organized the closed-door AI Insight Summit, which also included labour leaders. (The New York Times)

Talking point: At Schumer’s prompting, the tech executives concurred that there’s a role for the government in AI. But on how it should do so, and to address what risks, there’s less agreement. Altman wants a licensing regime; Krishna says it would stifle innovation. Musk insists AI poses an existential threat to humanity—or x-risk—even as he builds xAI, his own competitor in the field; Microsoft founder Bill Gates, another attendee at the meeting, says the technology’s drawbacks are manageable. Musk also signed the March open letter calling for a pause on training AI models; Karp said any halt lets unspecified “adversaries” get ahead. Some senators who attended the meeting said it should have been held in public view. Still, Schumer said the goal is to inform forthcoming bipartisan AI legislation.