AI execs set to meet with President Trump

AND CENTER, WE'LL TALK TO THE CEO OF ALASKA AIRLINES ABOUT THE IMPACT ON JET FUEL AND WHAT HE'S SEEING FROM CONSUMERS RIGHT NOW. >> FIRST, THOUGH, LET'S GET SOME BREAKING NEWS IN WASHINGTON. AS THE TRUMP ADMINISTRATION GETS SET TO LAUNCH A NEW AI INITIATIVE AHEAD OF A BIG MEETING WITH TECH EXECUTIVES LATER ON. EAMON JAVERS IS ALL OVER IT. MORNING, EAMON. >> YEAH. GOOD MORNING TO YOU, CARL. WE'RE GOING TO SEE THE PRESIDENT LATER ON THIS HOUR AT THE MELLON AUDITORIUM HERE IN WASHINGTON D.C. HE'S GOING TO BE UNVEILING THIS NEW WEBSITE, AMERICA.GOV. AND WHAT THE WHITE HOUSE SAYS IS THIS IS GOING TO BE SORT OF THE FRONT PORCH FOR AMERICAN PRESIDENTS ON THE WEB IN TERMS OF CITIZENS ACCESSING THE INFORMATION THAT THEIR GOVERNMENT PROVIDES. IT'S GOING TO BE AN AI ENABLED WEBSITE. AND THEY'RE SAYING IT'S GOING TO COME WITH A LOT OF BELLS AND WHISTLES. WE'LL WAIT FOR THE OFFICIAL UNVEILING TO SEE WHAT ALL OF THOSE ARE. BUT THE PRESIDENT IS GOING TO BE ABSOLUTELY MARINATING IN TECH EXECUTIVES TODAY. THERE WILL BE WE EXPECT SOME TECH EXECUTIVES AT THAT EVENT AND THEN LATER HERE AT THE WHITE HOUSE AT ABOUT 1230 THIS AFTERNOON, HE'S GOING TO HAVE LUNCH WITH A WHOLE HOST. AND THERE YOU SEE THEM NOW, A WHOLE HOST OF TOP TECH EXECS, THESE FOLKS, AND WE SUSPECT EVEN MORE, WILL BE HERE AT THE WHITE HOUSE LATER TODAY. AND IT'S THIS FASCINATING MOMENT WHERE WE SEE THIS PROSPECTUS FROM ANTHROPIC SAYING, YOU KNOW, LOOK, OUR PRODUCT MIGHT END END WITH THE, YOU KNOW, ELIMINATION OF ALL HUMAN BEINGS. IT MIGHT END UP WITH THE MASSIVE DISRUPTION OF THE U.S. ECONOMY. WASHINGTON HAS TO FIGURE OUT WHAT TO DO ABOUT ALL OF THAT. AND YOU HAVE A PRESIDENT RIGHT NOW WHOSE POSITION IS, WE REALLY DON'T NEED TO DO ANYTHING. WHAT PRESIDENT TRUMP HAS SAID ON ALL OF THIS AI DISRUPTION IS THAT WE HAVE THE DEPARTMENT OF JUSTICE, AND THAT'S WHAT WE NEED, AND THAT'S ALL WE NEED IN ORDER TO PROTECT AMERICANS FROM AI GOING ROGUE OR FROM ANY CRIMINAL ACTIVITY AS A RESULT >> OF AI TECHNOLOGY. AND YOU HAVE THESE TECH EXECUTIVES WHO ARE SAYING, WAIT A SECOND, YOU NEED TO STOP US BEFORE WE TECH AGAIN AND SAYING, WE NEED REGULATION. WE NEED THE GOVERNMENT TO BE INVOLVED HERE. IT'S SORT OF THE INVERSE OF WHAT WE'VE SEEN, YOU KNOW, IN MY LIFETIME IN WASHINGTON, WHERE EVERY INDUSTRY COMES TO WASHINGTON TRADITIONALLY FOR LESS REGULATION, THIS INDUSTRY IS COMING ASKING FOR MORE. AND I THINK A LOT OF THAT TABLE SETTING IS GOING TO BE DONE AT THE TABLE HERE AT THE WHITE HOUSE LATER TODAY. WITH THAT LUNCH WITH THE EXECUTIVES, WILL THEY BE ABLE TO MOVE PRESIDENT TRUMP OFF OF HIS POSITION, WHICH IS BASICALLY EVERYTHING IS FINE. AND THE LAST THING WE WANT TO DO IS SLOW DOWN AI AND SLOW DOWN DEVELOPMENT OF THIS TECHNOLOGY, BECAUSE THAT COULD HURT THE U.S. ECONOMY. THE PRESIDENT IS SORT OF IN LOCKSTEP, TREASURY SECRETARY SCOTT BESSENT HAS SAID, WITH JEN-HSUN HUANG AND HIS VIEW OF AI GROWTH AND SORT OF A MAXIMALIST VIEW. BUT THERE WILL BE SOME OTHERS AT THE TABLE WHO SHARE A DIFFERENT VIEW. AND WE'LL SEE WHAT THEY SAY ON THE WAY OUT LATER ON THIS AFTERNOON. GUYS, BACK OVER TO YOU, EAMON. >> TO YOUR POINT, IT DOES COLLIDE WITH THE TIMING OF THIS REPORTING ABOUT THE ANTHROPIC PROSPECTUS IN WHICH THEY DO TALK ABOUT EXISTENTIAL RISKS TO HUMANITY, SELF PRESERVING BEHAVIORS ON THE PART OF THE MODELS THAT RESEMBLE BLACKMAIL AT TIMES. I MEAN, STUFF LIKE THAT HAS GOT TO COME UP. >> ABSOLUTELY. AND THE IDEA OF AI IS THAT, YOU KNOW, REFUSE TO BE TURNED OFF IS CERTAINLY, YOU KNOW, SCARY PIECE OF SCI FI. BUT I THINK THE GENERAL VIEW, AT LEAST FOR NOW INSIDE THE WHITE HOUSE, OR AT LEAST THE PEOPLE WHO'VE BEEN SUCCESSFUL IN TALKING TO THE PRESIDENT IS, YOU KNOW, LOOK, THIS IS AI DUMA ISM. THIS IS, YOU KNOW, PEOPLE WHO ARE TECHNO FUTURISTS WHO'VE KIND OF GONE AMOK AND THEY'RE PARANOID AND THEY'RE CRAZY. AND ULTIMATELY, YOU KNOW, THIS THING IS NOT NEARLY AS CONCERNING AS ALL THAT. IF WE HAVE LIABILITY IN PLACE, IF WE HAVE THE DEPARTMENT OF JUSTICE IN PLACE, YOU KNOW, THESE THINGS WILL POLICE THEMSELVES. THAT'S THE VIEW. IT'S NOT WIDELY SHARED IN SILICON VALLEY. AND SO, YOU KNOW, THEY'RE GOING TO HAVE TO MAKE AN ARGUMENT TO AN AUDIENCE HERE IN THE AUDIENCE OF ONE, THE PRESIDENT WHO HAS SAID HE HAS ALREADY MADE UP HIS MIND, AND HE CAN BE A BIT OF AN IMMOVABLE OBJECT ONCE