Trump hosts private dinner with Anthropic CEO Dario Amodei
World · 27 September 2026
Written by AI from multiple news reports
President Trump had a private dinner with Anthropic CEO Dario Amodei at the White House on Sunday, September 27. It was their first one-on-one meeting. Trump invited Amodei personally after a scheduling problem kept him away from an earlier dinner with other tech leaders.
The two men have very different views on artificial intelligence. Amodei has called for slower AI development, but Trump has said AI safety concerns are not real. Their companies have also clashed over military use of AI. The Trump administration previously punished Anthropic because it refused to let its technology be used for autonomous weapons or mass surveillance. A court then ruled that the military could not use Anthropic's AI models.
The dinner took place two days after that court decision.