Anthropic CEO Dario Amodei can have dinner with President Donald Trump on Sunday, an individual accustomed to the matter instructed Enterprise Insider.
On the menu? Some nitty-gritty discussions about AI.
“President Trump has been clear: America will lead the world in Tremendous Intelligence, whereas defending American customers,” a White Home official instructed Enterprise Insider, utilizing Trump’s preferred term for the tech.
“We are going to drive innovation, strengthen American competitiveness, and guarantee this transformative expertise works for the American individuals,” the official mentioned.
Sunday’s soiree will mark the primary sit-down assembly between Anthropic’s CEO and the president. It comes as Amodei’s calls for government regulation of frontier AI firms have largely fallen flat amongst key energy brokers in Washington.
In a current publish on Fact Social, Trump mocked Amodei and spurned his requires regulation and a coordinated slowdown amongst frontier AI firms.
“The Trump Administration has stopped AI ‘individuals’ from doing dangerous, or doubtlessly dangerous, ‘issues,’ like Dario (Anthropic!), who’s now pretending to be a ‘excellent little angel,'” the president mentioned on September 14. “We are going to proceed to take action!”
Amodei was notably absent from a summit of tech honchos held on the White Home final week throughout a go to by China’s chief, Xi Jinping, to the US.
Final yr, Amodei and Trump attended an AI and vitality summit collectively in Pennsylvania. Amodei mentioned then that the pair “had a good conversation about US management in AI.”
Information of Sunday’s dinner assembly was first reported by Axios.
Although Trump has repeatedly signaled robust disinterest in regulating the US AI business to remain forward of China, the president introduced a brand new “AI power” final week, which he mentioned will “watch over” the business.
No additional particulars concerning the AI force have emerged since Trump’s publish final week. Trump additionally mentioned he would identify a brand new “AI Czar,” however he has not completed so but, although he did say that Treasury Secretary Scott Bessent was not in competition for the place.
