Trump Privately Met with Sam Altman at GOP Convention President Donald Trump met privately with OpenAI chief executive Sam Altman backstage at the Republican midterm convention on Thursday, according to MS NOW. The meeting came days after a former OpenAI researcher publicly accused OpenAI and rival Anthropic of acting irresponsibly and "gambling with our lives. “President Donald Trump met privately with OpenAI chief executive Sam Altman backstage at the Republican midterm convention on Thursday, days after a former researcher for the company publicly accused both it and rival Anthropic of acting irresponsibly and ‘gambling with our lives,'” MS NOW reports.