Anthropic CEO Dario Amodei seems to be everywhere this weekend: He was ridiculed on the season premiere of Saturday Night Live, and tonight he’s set to have dinner with President Donald Trump at the White House.
Axios first broke the news of Amodei’s dinner plans, which TechCrunch later confirmed with a source familiar with his plans.
It will be the first face-to-face meeting between the two men, who have recently found themselves on opposing sides of the AI safety debate. Amodei has released a plan to slow down AI development (or at least proceed more cautiously), while Trump has insisted, without evidence, that the AI backlash is a Democratic hoax; he also wants to rename the technology “super intelligence”.
Even before the current exchanges, Amodei and Anthropic were expected to have strained relations with the Trump administration. Earlier this year, the Pentagon designated Anthropic a supply chain risk in response to the company’s attempt to put guardrails around the use of its technology (Anthropic fought that designation in court), although other administration officials have been more friendly.
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