Trump and Johnson meeting with AI executives set for Tuesday
Conservative principles face implementation challenges as policy meets political complexity.
The White House is bringing in the people who actually build artificial intelligence, not the people who read a grim think tank report last week and now have firm opinions. That is how you do this. President Trump and Speaker Johnson sit down with the AI CEOs on Tuesday, and Johnson is not pretending the answers are obvious.
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President Donald Trump and Speaker Mike Johnson (R-LA) will meet with executives of top AI companies at the White House on Tuesday, the Washington Examiner confirmed. The expected meeting underscores the pressure Republicans are under to regulate the industry ahead of the November midterm elections.
Johnson has rejected calls to act quickly on regulating AI models, […]
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The White House is bringing in the people who actually build artificial intelligence, not the people who read a grim think tank report last week and now have firm opinions. That is how you do this. President Trump and Speaker Johnson sit down with the AI CEOs on Tuesday, and Johnson is not pretending the answers are obvious. Good. He keeps saying we should not rush to regulate a technology that is still figuring out what it will be. He is right.
Everyone is feeling the midterm pressure. The left wants a story to run on, something scary and urgent, and AI regulation fits the bill. But the worst thing Congress could do right now is write a bunch of rules for a moving target. Let the tech leaders speak first. Regulate what you understand. The last thing we need is a panic-driven bill that locks in mistakes for a decade while the rest of the world races ahead.
Pay attention to what this meeting is. Trump and Johnson are not rubber stamping anything. They are listening before they lead. That frustrates the people who already know the answers. It should not. AI is too consequential to be handled by a committee that meets twice and votes on vibes. The cautious path is the conservative one. The Republican approach here is plainly wiser: learn the real landscape, then act. Even if the next election is a year away, the future is longer than that.
Commentary written with AI assistance by the New Republican Times Editorial Board.