Barron’s Roundtable panel analyzes Anthropic’s potential IPO amid concerns about the growth of AI.
President Donald Trump and Anthropic CEO Dario Amodei are meeting Sunday evening for a private dinner at the White House.
Trump confirmed the meeting to Fox News’ Aishah Hasnie.
It comes after the AI company’s leader expressed concerns this month about the risks of the technology, warning that the pace of its progress needed to be slowed.
“We need to slow down the pace at which we improve the capabilities of AI models. Progress will still seem rapid, and we need to use the time we gain wisely,” Amodei wrote in an essay.
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President Donald Trump and Anthropic CEO Dario Amodei are meeting Sunday evening for a private dinner at the White House. (Getty Images/Getty Images)
Last week, Amodei spoke to the UN Security Council about the need for the AI industry to establish international standards and cooperation to manage the threats posed by rapid developments in AI and capabilities.
Former Anthropic researcher Jacob Coxon also resigned from the company earlier this month, arguing that leading AI companies are not acting responsibly as AI capabilities rapidly advance.
“I resigned from Anthropic today. I have spent the last three years doing pre-training research at OpenAI and Anthropic. Neither company is acting responsibly. They are rushing straight towards self-enhancing superintelligence and playing with our lives,” Jacob Coxon said on September 8.
Hasnie asked Trump about Amodei’s call to slow the pace of AI improvement.
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Anthropic CEO Dario Amodei has warned that the pace of progress in AI needs to be slowed. (Anna Moneymaker/Getty Images/Getty Images)
“We’re going to talk about it. I’m for, let’s go and win. We’re about a year, maybe a year and a half ahead of China. There’s no one in third place. It’s just us and China. We’re quite ahead. I talked about it a little bit with President Xi. Not too much, it wasn’t a topic of conversation. Because I think if, as they say, you open it up to China, you give up leadership. But I will talk to Dario and others,” Trump said.
Amodei was not among the tech industry leaders to attend Thursday’s state dinner at the White House for Chinese President Xi Jinping, although the group included OpenAI CEO Sam Altman, Amazon CEO Jeff Bezos and Meta CEO Mark Zuckerberg.
Trump also said a broader meeting at the White House with House Speaker Mike Johnson and AI executives was planned for Tuesday.
“We have a very big meeting on Tuesday where everyone is coming and it will be very important,” Trump told Hasnie.
Anthropic has been embroiled in a legal battle with the Pentagon over the tech company’s designation as a supply chain risk. (Samyukta Lakshmi/Bloomberg via Getty Images / Getty Images)
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Anthropic has been embroiled in a legal battle with the Pentagon over the tech company’s designation as a supply chain risk.
In a 2-1 ruling Friday, an appeals court sided with the Pentagon, allowing the department to continue designating Anthropic as a “supply chain risk” to the Defense Department’s procurement needs.
“Confirmed: @AnthropicAI = Supply Chain Risk. The @DeptofWar is doing what’s right for the country and our warfighters,” Pentagon chief Pete Hegseth said on social media after the decision.
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