President Donald Trump and Anthropic CEO Dario Amodei are meeting for a private dinner at the White House on Sunday evening.
Trump confirmed the meeting to Fox News’ Aishah Hasnie.
This comes after the leader of the AI firm raised concerns this month about the technology’s risks, warning that the pace of its advancement needs to be slowed down.
“We must slow the pace at which we improve the capabilities of AI models. Progress will still seem fast, and we must make wise use of the time we gain,” Amodei wrote in an essay.
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Last week, Amodei spoke before the U.N. Security Council about the need for the AI industry to establish international standards and cooperation to manage the threats posed by rapid AI developments and capabilities.
Former Anthropic researcher Jacob Coxon also stepped down 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 spent the last three years doing pretraining research at both OpenAI and Anthropic. Neither company is acting responsibly. They are racing straight to self-improving superintelligence and gambling with our lives,” Jacob Coxon said on Sept. 8.
Trump was asked by Hasnie about Amodei’s call for slowing the pace of AI improvement.
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“We’re going to talk about it. I’m for let’s go and let’s win. We’re about a year, maybe a year and a half up on China. There is nobody in third place. It’s just us and China. We’re leading by quite a bit. I spoke a little bit about it with President Xi. Not too much, it wasn’t a topic of conversation. Because I think if you, as they say, open it up to China, you give up the lead. But I’ll be speaking 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 White House meeting with House Speaker Mike Johnson and AI executives is scheduled for Tuesday.
“We have a very big meeting on Tuesday where everybody’s coming in and that’ll be very important,” Trump told Hasnie.
Anthropic has been involved in a legal fight with the Pentagon over its designation of the tech company 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” for Defense Department procurement purposes.
“Confirmed: @AnthropicAI = Supply Chain Risk. The @DeptofWar does what is right for the Country and our Warriors,” Pentagon chief Pete Hegseth said on social media following the ruling.
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