Anthropic's Dario Amodei set for first dinner with Trump

It has been a busy weekend of mentions for Dario Amodei, the chief executive of Anthropic. First he was mocked in the season premiere of Saturday Night Live, and that same evening he was reportedly due to have dinner with President Donald Trump at the White House.

Axios first broke the news of the dinner plans, and TechCrunch subsequently confirmed the report through a source familiar with Amodei's plans. It would be the first one-on-one meeting between the two men.

On opposite sides

Amodei and Trump have lately landed on opposing sides of the AI safety debate. The Anthropic chief laid out a plan to slow the technology's development — or at least to proceed with more caution. Trump, meanwhile, has insisted, without evidence, that the backlash against AI is a Democratic hoax; he also wants to rebrand the technology as "super intelligence."

A fraught relationship

The friction between Anthropic and the administration predates the current exchange. Earlier this year the Pentagon labeled the company a supply-chain risk, a response to Anthropic's attempt to put guardrails around the use of its own technology. The company has been fighting that designation in court. Other administration officials, however, have been friendlier toward it.

How the dinner turned out is not part of the report: the meeting became news before its outcome did.

Source: TechCrunch