Anthropic CEO Dario Amodei seems to be everywhere this weekend: he was lampooned on the season premiere of Saturday Night LiveAnd tonight he will have dinner with President Donald Trump at the White House.
Axios first broke the news of Amodei’s dinner planswhich TechCrunch later confirmed with a source familiar with its 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 launched a plan to stop the development of AI (or at least proceed with more caution), while Trump has insistedwithout evidence, that the AI reaction is a Democratic hoax; he too wants to change the name of the technology to “superintelligence.”
Even before the current back-and-forth, Amodei and Anthropic had to have a tense relationship with the Trump administration. Earlier this year, the Pentagon designated Anthropic as a supply chain risk in response to the company’s attempt to put up barriers to the use of its technology (Anthropic has been fighting the designation in court), although Other administration officials have been friendlier.