Trump downplays AI risk ahead of dinner with Anthropic chief
President Donald Trump said he is not worried about runaway artificial intelligence and will discuss the issue at a dinner with Anthropic CEO Dario Amodei.
During a Sunday interview, President Donald Trump minimized concerns raised by tech executives over recent cybersecurity incidents involving AI agents, arguing that the United States is leading the field with multitrillion-dollar investments and will correct any issues. He announced a planned dinner with Anthropic co-founder Dario Amodei, who has called for stronger oversight of advanced AI systems, and said the conversation will focus on artificial intelligence.
The meeting comes after a Thursday state dinner at the White House that featured top AI and tech leaders such as Jensen Huang of Nvidia, Sam Altman of OpenAI, Sundar Pichai of Alphabet, Jeff Bezos of Amazon, Michael Dell of Dell Technologies, and Elon Musk of xAI. Trump emphasized that the United States is a year or more ahead of China in the AI race and that no one is in a "third place." He also hinted that the U.S. and China intend to keep development momentum rather than slow it down. A larger gathering is scheduled for Tuesday, which he described as highly important.
How this story developed
- Jul 28 AI leaders urge U.S. to back global framework for slowing automated AI progress
- Sep 20 Treasury Secretary Scott Bessent met Vice Premier He Lifeng in New York to discuss AI safety and trade ahead of the Trump‑Xi summit.
- Sep 22 Trump announced the creation of an “AI Force” and the selection of an AI czar.
- Sep 22 David Sacks was installed as the president’s senior AI adviser, shaping a deregulatory White House policy.
- Sep 23 U.S. AI firms called for a pause on frontier AI development while Chinese officials highlighted political stability, deep‑fake prevention and child protection as their primary AI risk concerns.
- Sep 23 OpenAI chief Sam Altman and Anthropic founder Dario Amodei appealed to the UN Security Council for an international framework to manage escalating AI dangers.
- Sep 23 UN Security Council hearing featured CEOs Altman and Amodei warning of AI risks.
- Sep 23 Jacob Coxon resigned from Anthropic, prompting Amodei’s essay calling for a paced AI development approach.
- Sep 24 Australian Prime Minister Anthony Albanese and AI researcher Yoshua Bengio joined the UN briefing.
- Sep 24 State Department’s Bureau of International Organization Affairs issued a memo ordering diplomats to use “Super Intelligence” and the acronym “SI” instead of “Artificial Intelligence.”
- Sep 25 Treasury Secretary Scott Bessent and Vice Premier He Lifeng agreed to explore a notification mechanism for AI incidents that could affect national security.
- Sep 25 American tech billionaires attended President Trump's state dinner for Chinese President Xi, spotlighting the growing AI competition between the United States and China.
- Sep 26 AI CEOs publicly called for a slower rollout of new models.
- Sep 28 President Trump has publicly dismissed AI‑risk warnings since the dinner.
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