By The Epoch Times | Created at 2026-09-28 10:35:17 | Updated at 2026-09-28 11:53:52
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Dario Amodei, CEO and co-founder of Anthropic, attends the annual meeting of the World Economic Forum in Davos, Switzerland, on Jan. 23, 2025. Markus Schreiber/AP Photo
President Donald Trump met Anthropic CEO Dario Amodei on Sunday night, ahead of a Sept. 29 meeting with AI industry leaders.
Speaking to reporters on Sunday after arriving at Joint Base Andrews in Maryland, Trump said the dinner with Amodei was scheduled for 10 p.m. on Sept. 27.
“We’re meeting with Anthropic, as you know, on Tuesday. That’s going to be big, and we have a couple of unrelated things tonight,” he said. “So I’m having dinner with Dario, as you know, very highly respected from Anthropic.”
The Epoch Times reached out to Anthropic for comment but did not receive a response by the time of publication.
The meeting comes just two days after a federal appeals court upheld the Pentagon’s decision to label Anthropic as a supply-chain risk, a designation that prevents the AI company from doing business with the federal government and its contractors.
Anthropic had refused to change the user policy for its Claude model to grant the government unrestricted access, citing concerns that the technology could be used for mass surveillance or for fully autonomous weapons, which led to the designation in March. The Pentagon
deniedthat it planned to use Claude for such purposes.
Earlier this month, Amodei called on AI companies to slow the development of their most advanced models to allow time to put safeguards in place before AI systems become too powerful. Industry leaders have
backedAmodei’s call, including OpenAI CEO Sam Altman and SpaceXAI CEO Elon Musk.
In his video remarks to the U.N. Security Council on Sept. 23, Amodei warned that the technology could “be a risk to humanity as a whole” if it is not properly managed.
He called for U.N. agreements that ban the use of AI to form biological weapons, and encouraged the council to build evaluation and verification systems allowing nations to hold each other accountable, establish global standards to test AI models for loss of control risks and misuse risks, and add a notification system for AI incidents affecting global security.
“We will slow down as much as necessary in order to make sure that every successive AI technology that we release is actually safe,” Amodei said. “But regardless of what we do, managing these risks is ultimately bigger than any one company, and it has an industry-wide and global scale.”
Trump has pushed back against calls for AI guardrails,
callingthem “a sick conspiracy” surrounding the technology that, he said, would only benefit China in the AI development race.
The president said his administration has stopped AI companies from “doing bad, or potentially bad” things, citing the government’s existing criminal and regulatory power over them.
“The only control or ‘guardrails’ that AI needs is a STRONG AND SMART (High IQ!) PRESIDENT, and the U.S.A. has that, in spades!” he said in a Truth Social post on Sept. 14. “WHOEVER WINS AI, WINS!”
Jacki Thrapp contributed to this report.
