Anthropic CEO Dario Amodei to Dine With Trump at White House

Anthropic CEO Dario Amodei will have dinner with President Donald Trump at the White House tonight, according to Axios, which first reported the plans and whose story was subsequently confirmed by other publications.

The dinner marks the first one-on-one meeting between the two men. They arrive at the table from opposite sides of the AI safety debate.

Amodei recently released a plan to slow AI development, or at least to proceed with more caution. Trump, for his part, has insisted — without evidence — that the AI backlash is a Democratic hoax. The president also wants to rebrand the technology as "super intelligence."

The meeting follows a strained stretch between Anthropic and the Trump administration. Earlier this year, the Pentagon designated Anthropic a supply-chain risk. The move came in response to the company's attempt to put guardrails around the use of its technology, and Anthropic has been fighting the designation in court.

Other administration officials, however, have been friendlier to the company.

The dinner caps an unusual weekend of visibility for Amodei. He was lampooned on the season premiere of Saturday Night Live — and hours later he sits down with the president.

The stakes for the meeting are clear: Anthropic remains under a Pentagon designation it is actively litigating, while its chief executive has positioned himself as a leading voice for AI caution. Whether tonight's dinner softens the administration's stance on the supply-chain risk designation — or on AI safety more broadly — will shape the next phase of the company's relationship with Washington.