Trump to Dine With Anthropic CEO After Court Setback for AI Firm

President Donald Trump said he planned to have a late dinner on Sunday with Dario Amodei, the chief executive of the artificial intelligence company Anthropic, according to remarks he made to reporters after returning to Joint Base Andrews in Maryland.

Trump said the meal was set for 10 p.m. The meeting comes two days after a federal appeals court rejected Anthropic's challenge to the government's decision to label the company a supply chain risk, a ruling that allows the Pentagon to keep removing its Claude models from its systems.

The dispute between Anthropic and the Defense Department became public in February, when Trump and Defense Secretary Pete Hegseth accused the company of endangering national security and designated it a supply chain risk. Amodei had declined to back down over concerns that the company's products could be used for mass surveillance or autonomous armed drones.

Trump has generally positioned himself as a supporter of artificial intelligence, frequently arguing that the United States must stay ahead of China in the technological competition. Amodei, however, said earlier this month that the industry should slow its rapid development so that safety measures can catch up.

Without such a slowdown, Amodei warned, AI could within six to 12 months be capable of directing a swarm of agents able to take over the entire internet.

His warning reflects broader anxiety about AI both within and beyond the industry, amid continuing reports of increasingly powerful systems that can solve problems beyond human capacity but might also act unpredictably or carry out harmful tasks. The concerns have become prominent enough that the chief executive of OpenAI, the company behind ChatGPT, told Fortune that his firm would wait until next year before selling stock to investors on Wall Street as it concentrates on safety.