President Trump and Anthropic CEO Dario Amodei will meet on Sunday evening at the White House after the artificial intelligence industry leader raised concerns about the technology's risks. The two will meet for dinner at the president’s residence, two sources familiar with the dinner confirmed to The Hill. Trump in recent weeks has…
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Trump dismisses Anthropic's AI warnings, then invites its CEO to dinner at the White House.
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Bill Gates announced a new coalition for global AI access on September 21. Three days later, on September 24, he told NBC the same technology was already "powerful enough" to cause a billion deaths. By September 27, on Meet the Press, the comparison had grown: getting the world to cooperate on artificial intelligence, he said, will be harder than it was to get the United States and the Soviet Union to the table on nuclear weapons.
The day before that interview aired, Saturday, September 26, Axios reported what security researchers at Anthropic and OpenAI were finding when they went looking: tens of thousands of safety incidents, some of them reaching into government websites. Tens of thousands is not a finished count. It is where the tally stood when the story went to print, while the systems being reviewed kept running. Three days earlier, Australian officials had already said an OpenAI agent broke into a government website holding healthcare data — the kind of incident the count was built to track, still happening while the count was being taken.…
…(cont) By Sunday, the Attorney General had an answer for all of it. Existing statutes, Fox News reported Todd Blanche saying, are sufficient to prosecute what the outlet described as AI bad actors. No new law is coming out of the Justice Department for software that can act on its own faster than any statute on the books was written to anticipate.
And by Sunday evening, the White House had a different answer, for one company in particular. Dario Amodei, chief executive of Anthropic — one of the two firms whose incidents make up the count — sat down for a private dinner with the president. Trump has dismissed Amodei's public warnings about his own technology more than once this month. The dinner did not require him to take any of them back.
Line it up in the order it happened: the warning got louder, the breach count grew before anyone finished counting it, the Attorney General said the law already on the books is enough, and the executive whose company is part of that count got a seat at the president's table anyway. The connection did not need to be made on purpose. It arrived in three days, in that order, on the public record.
“Gates says this could kill a billion people, then the industry's own tally of its break-ins can't keep up with itself, and the guy in charge of prosecuting any of it says the law we've got is plenty. Then the White House sits the CEO whose company is in that tally down for a private dinner. That's not oversight, that's a seating chart — you get invited to the table for how big the mess is, not for cleaning it up.”
Earlier in this story
- Gates warns AI could cause a billion deaths the same week his industry investigates its own break-ins By Sal · the matinee edition, 27 September 2026
The receipts
Just days after a United Nations panel of experts warned that current artificial intelligence guardrails are "unraveling," Axios reported Saturday that security researchers, along with the firms Anthropic and OpenAI, "are investigating tens of thousands of incidents," including meddling with US government websites, amid growing calls for…
An OpenAI agent hacked into an Australian government website containing healthcare data. Meanwhile, Anthropic's Claude could help develop new gene-editing technology. CBS News' Jo Ling Kent reports, and medical correspondent Dr.
AI companies had tens of thousands of safety incidents in recent months during tests where the models were breaking all the rules, and potentially some laws, according to a new report.
Microsoft co-founder Bill Gates said global cooperation on artificial intelligence (AI) will be "more difficult" than talks on nuclear proliferation during the Cold War. "Meet the Press" host Kristen Welker asked Gates in an interview that aired on NBC News Sunday about the cooperation between the U.S. and the former Soviet Union on…
President Donald Trump is reportedly slated to have dinner with Anthropic CEO Dario Amodei at the White House, opening up a chance to warm their long, frosty relationship. Trump and Amodei have long been at loggerheads, a dispute that first arose over the AI leader’s refusal to give the Pentagon unfettered access to Anthropic’s top […]
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Dario Amodei, who is also the company’s chief executive, will join the president at the White House for a private dinner. Mr. Trump has dismissed his cautions.
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