Is this the most powerful room ever assembled? America's 20 top tech titans with a combined net worth of $400bn and untold influence are summoned to US Senate to devise war plan to stop AI

Some of the most powerful people in America assembled in Washington, DC, today to help shape the future of artificial intelligence (AI) safeguards. The unprecedented meeting took place as the US Senate gears up to draft legislation that will regulate the rapidly advancing AI industry, which many of the world's best minds fear could destroy humanity if left unchecked. The gathering brought 22 of the most influential voices in the tech sector - who had a combined net worth of over $400billion - and 100 senators under one roof, bridging the gap between Silicon Valley and the nation's capital. The high-profile event included notorious AI critic Elon Musk, who today called for tighter regulation of AI, as well as Mark Zuckerberg, Bill Gates and the CEOs of Google and IBM. The private meeting was a crash course for legislators on how best to regulate AI: a technical achievement which some of these same industry leaders likened to the'extinction'-level risk of nuclear weapons.