Top AI company executives are seeking a narrow antitrust exemption to collaborate on AI safety issues, but bipartisan members of the U.S. Congress and former Department of Justice officials oppose this. Senator Elizabeth Warren and Jonathan Kanter, former head of the DOJ's Antitrust Division, both noted that existing antitrust laws already permit companies to cooperate on safety issues without additional exemptions. They are concerned that such exemptions could be abused as an excuse to limit competition or hinder innovation. Previously, Anthropic CEO Dario Amodei had raised the possibility of an antitrust exemption, gaining support from other AI executives. Executives from several AI companies, including Google, Tesla, Meta, OpenAI, and NVIDIA, met with U.S. President Donald Trump at the White House on Tuesday.