Trump to meet with AI executives as he explores public stake in industry
President Donald Trump said he will meet next week with executives from top artificial intelligence companies to discuss how ordinary Americans can share in AI’s rapid growth. He pitched the idea of making the public a “partner” in AI companies’ success, potentially through structures like giving the public certain leases or benefits so that everyday people “become rich.”
Trump has made AI a major focus of his second term and signed executive orders aimed at accelerating progress despite mixed public sentiment. Officials did not name the specific firms attending, but cybersecurity entrepreneur Arnie Bellini said companies including Anthropic, OpenAI, and SpaceXAI have volunteered to work with the management under Trump’s new AI regulatory approach. bellini argued the order reduces regulation that could slow progress while encouraging company cooperation, framing US AI leadership as a strategic national asset.
Trump also suggested the effort requires a “Manhattan-like” project to keep the US ahead globally, and he said he isn’t surprised at overlap with Sen. Bernie Sanders’s earlier ideas about Americans gaining financial stakes in AI.
President Donald Trump said Friday that he will meet with executives from the nation’s leading artificial intelligence companies next week to discuss ways ordinary people could share in the industry’s explosive growth, including a concept he described as making the public a “partner” in AI’s success.
Trump has made AI a focal point of his second term in office, signing multiple executive orders meant to spur growth and innovation, even while public sentiment surrounding the technology remains mixed.
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“There’s so much money and it’s so big, that there are concepts where leases could be given to the American public, where the American public essentially becomes a partner with the company, with the companies,” the president told reporters flying with him on Air Force One Friday, noting that he’d already discussed the idea with representatives from the firms and that it would make everyday Americans “rich.”
“There’s something very interesting about it where it almost becomes a partnership with the American public, and we’ll look into it,” he continued. “We’re talking about it, where the American people can benefit from the success of AI, and by doing that, they’re going to like it better, because we’re leading China. We’re leading everybody in the world with AI, and we want to keep it that way. It’s probably the biggest industry, maybe that we’ve ever seen.”
Trump and White House officials did not specify which companies were included in the meeting with the president, with Trump simply telling reporters Friday that “all of them” would attend.
However, Arnie Bellini, the founder and chairman of cybersecurity platform ConnectWise, told the Washington Examiner that Anthropic, OpenAI, and SpaceXAI, the three leading American AI developers, had all volunteered to cooperate with the Trump administration as it relates to the AI executive order Trump signed earlier this week.
Bellini argued that Trump’s order limited regulation that could slow AI development while enticing companies to work with the government and, theoretically, advance the economic interests of the public.
“The most beautiful thing is the major companies are complying,” he said in an interview. “Our lead in AI is now considered a national strategic asset.”
“It’s more important than when everyone was racing to create the first nuclear bomb, right? Then we had the Manhattan Project. We need a Manhattan-like project, and I’m seeing Trump putting that together,” he continued. “If you’re going to have one country lead the world, you’re better off having the United States and China.”
Sen. Bernie Sanders (I-VT) has previously floated granting Americans a financial stake in rapidly growing AI, but Trump shook off questions Friday about whether or not he was surprised to be in near agreement with the progressive lawmaker on the issue.
“No, actually,” the president answered, “When Bernie Sanders lost [in the 2016 Democratic presidential primary], you know that I got many of his people. They voted for me because we wanted an economic plan — as far as economics are concerned, we have certain things that aren’t that far apart.”
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