WASHINGTON, June 10 (Reuters) - U.S. President Donald Trump said on Wednesday that he expected top artificial intelligence companies to agree to "giving back" to the public, an apparent reference to a possible government stake in the firms.

"I'm going to have meetings with the top 12 or 15 executives very shortly, and we're talking about giving back something to the public, and if we do that, the public will become very rich," Trump told reporters in the White House’s Oval Office. "I think they'll do that, and I think it'll make it very popular."