US President Donald Trump confirmed that he plans to have a dinner meeting with Anthropic CEO Dario Amodei on Sunday night, but reaffirmed his stance against slowing the pace of AI development.
Trump also reiterated his belief that new regulations would open the door for China to outpace the United States in AI advancement. The meeting comes as the CEOs of Anthropic rivals have called for slowing development of increasingly capable AI systems. These include OpenAI, Google’s DeepMind, Microsoft and xAI. Amodei is not the only major tech figure trying to bend Trump’s ear on AI regulation. Former Anthropic researcher Jacob Coxon warned that AI could kill us all by the end of the decade, prompting US lawmakers to call for new rules to govern the technology.
Evan Hubinger, Anthropic’s alignment science lead, also echoed Coxon’s warning, saying there was a more than 10% chance of such an event within the next decade.
Trump said it’s more important for the United States to maintain a technological edge over China Although he acknowledged Amodei’s concern that going too fast on artificial intelligence could expand risks. A groundswell has risen in favor of federal intervention after OpenAI said in July that an autonomous AI agent went rogue during a security test and hacked into another company. In an interview that aired earlier on Sunday on NBC’s “Meet the Press,” Microsoft co-founder Bill Gates said he would like to meet with Trump to discuss AI.
Trump, confirming earlier reporting by Axios and Reuters, told Fox News that he would have dinner with Amodei on Sunday night.
