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Anthropic’s CEO is about to have dinner with President Trump
Anthropic CEO Dario Amodei seems to be everywhere this weekend: He was lampooned 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 subsequently confirmed with a source familiar with his plans.
This will be the first one-on-one meeting between the two men, who recently found themselves on opposite sides of the AI safety debate. Amodei released a plan to slow AI development (or at least proceed with more caution), while Trump has insisted , without evidence, that the AI backlash is a Democratic hoax; he also wants to rebrand the technology as “super intelligence.”
Even before the current back-and-forth, Amodei and Anthropic have to had a fraught relationship with Trump’s 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 has been fighting the designation in court ), although other administration officials have been friendlier .
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