Trump, Anthropic CEO Take AI Safety Debate to Dinner

We know the dinner happened. What else do we know? We do know the dinner happened. A White House official has confirmed that it took place. It was late last night here in Washington, but we don't know anything more beyond that right now. There's been no readout from either side. And, Ed, really, key takeaway is that this meal would have brought together two men on opposite ends of AI safety debate. As we all know, Dario Amin has for years warned of the potential existential risks from the technology. And on September 12, he published that high profile essay promising to slow development of the most advanced models. President Donald Trump, on the other hand, has pushed back against those doomsday fears, calling them a hoax and also rejecting calls embraced by Amin for more regulation as a globalist conspiracy. So we'll be eager to see whether the two men were able to meet somewhere in the middle, and we may get some details on that from president Donald Trump during a policy announcement later this afternoon. And we're also, of course, out to Anthropic for any readout on their side. Over the weekend, I think ahead of this this meeting, the the president did speak to reporters, and he basically said, here's my point of view on on AI. Could you summarize what what what the president's standing is on it? Well, for weeks, he has been in response to a lot of the safety fears that have been surfaced by leaders in Silicon Valley, including Amin, but as well as his archrival, Sam Altman, that something must be done on a global basis to create some standards to address these risks that AI agents could get out of control, but the president has pushed back against that. He is interested in two things. He wants development of this technology to proceed largely unfettered because of its economic importance to The United States and, of course, also to the importance to The US of staying ahead of China, the top geopolitical rival in this technology. And that was really one of the centerpieces of the conversation between the president and his Chinese counterpart Xi Jinping here in Washington last week. A lot of other tech CEOs were at that state dinner for Xi Jinping on Thursday evening, but one absence notably was Dario Amin. So perhaps we will see a little bit of movement in the debate here in Washington, including with the president himself. And as Shep mentioned, the president is due to make a statement in a couple of hours' time.