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Dario Amodei has advocated for cautious AI development, while Donald Trump has dismissed AI safety concerns as a Democratic hoax and sought to rebrand AI as 'super intelligence'.
Anthropic CEO Dario Amodei seems to be everywhere this weekend: He was lampooned on the season premiere of Saturday Night Live, and tonight, he’s set to have dinner with President Donald Trump at the White House.
Axios first broke the news of Amodei’s dinner plans, which were subsequently confirmed by other publications.
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 released a plan to slow AI development (or at least proceed with more caution), while Trump has insisted, without evidence, that the AI backlash is a Democratic hoax; he also wants to rebrand the technology as “super intelligence.”
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The meeting may lead to public statements from either Amodei or Trump regarding AI policy
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