Trump rejects push to work with China on AI safety after Xi summit

Donald Trump says the US's AI companies have agreed to "police themselves" at a White House meeting of the industry's most powerful leaders.

But the US president is still resisting pressure to regulate the rapidly developing technology, despite hosting some of the high-profile executives who have been making extraordinary calls for guardrails on their companies.

The meeting followed a string of hacking incidents involving rogue AI , including in Australia , and dire warnings risks of catastrophe from industry leaders and people who have worked for them .

It featured a who's who of the industry, including OpenAI president Greg Brockman, Anthropic's Dario Amodei, SpaceXAI's Elon Musk and Meta's Mark Zuckerberg.

Mr Trump said they signed an agreement that contained "a tremendous self-policing aspect".

"It's almost like a constitution, in a way," he said.

Mr Zuckerberg described it as a "set of principles and commitments around building robust internal controls" as well as "multiple layers of of auditing".

"The idea isn't that this is the only thing that we will ever do," Mr Zuckerberg said at a joint press conference afterwards.

"It is that this is a start and an accord that the whole industry could come to."

The meeting comes a day after OpenAI apologised and promised to "do better for Australia" , following revelations an OpenAI agent gained unauthorised access to an online Medicare data portal.

Last week, OpenAI CEO Sam Altman and Anthropic CEO Dario Amodei urged the UN Security Council to work towards global safety standards to reduce the risk of AI-related catastrophe.

The Australian government is preparing to introduce legislation for national standards . But Mr Trump has previously dismissed concerns AI as a "hoax" .

Earlier, Mr Trump said he did not want to work with his Chinese counterpart to govern AI because it would make it harder for American companies to get ahead.

Mr Trump said he discussed AI with China's Xi Jinping during their summit last week, but "not that much, because I don't want to do anything".

"A lot of people say, let's do it together with China, but then they're going to be able to immediately gain access to things that we know that they don't know," Mr Trump said.

" We're leading now over China and everyone else, and I want to keep it that way. "