Anthropic’s Amodei due to meet Trump amid AI safety dispute
TechCrunch reports the White House dinner would be the first one-on-one meeting between the Anthropic chief executive and the US president.
Anthropic chief executive Dario Amodei is expected to have dinner with US President Donald Trump at the White House on 27 September, according to TechCrunch. The dinner was first reported by Axios. The source package includes no direct confirmation from the White House or Anthropic.
It would be the first one-on-one meeting between the two, as reported by TechCrunch. Their expected meeting comes amid disagreements over AI safety and tensions between Anthropic and the Trump administration.
Amodei has advocated slowing AI development or proceeding more cautiously. TechCrunch reports that Trump has dismissed AI safety concerns as a Democratic hoax and proposed calling the technology “super intelligence”.
Earlier this year, the Pentagon designated Anthropic a supply-chain risk over safeguards on the use of its technology, according to TechCrunch. Anthropic is challenging that designation in court. The report says some other administration officials have been friendlier towards the company.
