Nvidia chief executive Jensen Huang and other tech leaders questioned Anthropic’s Dario Amodei about his public warnings on AI at Tuesday’s White House lunch. People familiar with the matter told The Wall Street Journal about the exchange. Amodei replied that it was important to be honest, according to the report.

The exchange came just after the executives agreed to sign a statement of principles on AI safety, Amrith Ramkumar and Josh Dawsey reported. They then gathered around President Donald Trump outside the White House to present a united industry. TNW has not independently verified the account.

Two camps at one table

Amodei and OpenAI’s Sam Altman have called for heavier government regulation and a slowdown in AI development, Politico noted. Huang and Meta’s Mark Zuckerberg have largely dismissed critics who say AI could pose an existential risk.

Zuckerberg drafted the accord that came out of the lunch, Politico reported. Huang helped win support for it among the AI labs. Huang said last month that he wants no new AI laws.

Leading the rebrand

Huang is also leading the push to call AI “super intelligence”, Axios reported. On Tuesday, Trump made it the preferred term of the executive branch, following an executive order. Huang used the term twice in a post and repeatedly in a White House panel, Dave Lawler wrote. When he slipped once and said “AI”, he corrected himself.

“I am going to get good at this,” Huang said.

The public has not followed. In a YouGov poll this week, 53% of respondents said “artificial intelligence” was the better term, against 9% for “super intelligence”.

Amodei had dinner with Trump on Sunday, two days before the lunch.