Trump says AI leaders will work with local communities on data centres according to an NBC report.
Source excerptWASHINGTON — After privately huddling with nearly 20 tech titans at a White House lunch Tuesday, President Donald Trump continued to push back on calls for new safety regulations for artificial intelligence , saying there was agreement in the room that there should be “tremendous self-regulation” by companies. “There’s a belief that there should be tremendous self-regulation, and we automatically have regulation with the Department of Justice, the FBI, all of that,” said Trump, flanked by tech and government leaders. “But the self-regulation is very important,” he said. Moments later, outside the White House, Trump was asked whether anything would persuade him to back tougher AI guardrails or a slowdown of the industry. “I’m seeing tremendous self-policing, and they understand that they have to self-police,” he told reporters. In recent weeks, tech executives on the AI frontier —...