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.“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.”
