Anthropic CEO Dario Amodei appears to be in all places this weekend: He was lampooned on the season premiere of Saturday Evening Stay, and tonight, he’s set to have dinner with President Donald Trump on the White Home.
Axios first broke the information of Amodei’s dinner plans, which TechCrunch subsequently confirmed with a supply acquainted with his plans.
This would be the first one-on-one assembly between the 2 males, who lately discovered themselves on reverse sides of the AI security debate. Amodei launched a plan to sluggish AI growth (or no less than proceed with extra warning), whereas Trump has insisted, with out proof, that the AI backlash is a Democratic hoax; he additionally desires to rebrand the expertise as “tremendous intelligence.”
Even earlier than the present back-and-forth, Amodei and Anthropic must had a fraught relationship with Trump’s administration. Earlier this 12 months, the Pentagon designated Anthropic a supply-chain danger in response to the corporate’s try to put guardrails round using its expertise (Anthropic has been combating the designation in court docket), though different administration officers have been friendlier.
