Tech Leaders Meet Chinese President at the White House

This comes as artificial intelligence is expected to take center stage in the talks between Trump and Xi during the latter's visit to the United States, amid the dominance of the U.S. and China in the race to develop this technology.

The debate over artificial intelligence in the U.S. remains governed by the idea that the country's leading developers, including Open AI, Anthropic, Google, and Meta, cannot slow down the pace of innovation no matter the risks, for fear that China will surpass them.

China has long been seen as lagging behind the U.S. in artificial intelligence technologies, but it is rapidly closing the gap.

- "As fast as we can" -

Despite the intense competition between them, there is still hope that the two superpowers can reach an understanding on this technology when the presidents meet in Washington.

Former Anthropic AI researcher Jacob Coxson sparked a wave of concern when he said that developers of this technology "seriously believe it could kill us all by the end of the decade."

Anthropic's CEO Dario Amodei then published an article calling for caution and slowing down the pace of development.

Altman and Musk supported this idea, as did Demis Hassabis of Google DeepMind, who also called for the creation of a global body to regulate this technology led by the U.S.

U.S. President Donald Trump dismissed concerns about artificial intelligence this week, calling them a hoax.

This aligns with Huang's stance, who told CBS News in an excerpt from an interview published on Friday, "We have to go as fast as we can, regardless of anyone else."