Dario Amodei to have dinner with President Trump in a rare meeting

<figure><img src="https://i.insider.com/6ab95ea8eb7225411267b2ac?format=jpeg" height="5036" width="7550" alt="U.S. President Donald Trump looks on during the signing of a security pact between the U.S., Denmark, and Greenland during the 81st session of the United Nations (U.N.) General Assembly at U.N. Headquarters on September 22, 2026 in New York City."><figcaption>President Donald Trump and Anthropic CEO Dario Amodei are set to have dinner together on Sunday, according to a person familiar with the matter.<p class="copyright">Chip Somodevilla/Getty Images</p></figcaption></figure><ul class="summary-list"><li>Dario Amodei and President Donald Trump will dine together on Sunday.</li><li>The meeting comes as Amodei's calls for government regulation of AI companies have fallen flat.</li><li>The meeting will be the first sit-down between the two men.</li></ul><p><a target="" class="" href="https://www.businessinsider.com/snl-skit-mocks-dario-amodei-ai-doomsday-predictions-2026-9">Anthropic CEO Dario Amodei</a> will have dinner with President Donald Trump on Sunday, a person familiar with the matter told Business Insider.</p><p>On the menu? Some nitty-gritty discussions about AI.</p><p>"President Trump has been clear: America will lead the world in Super Intelligence, while protecting American consumers," a White House official told Business Insider, using Trump's <a target="" class="" href="https://www.businessinsider.com/trump-rename-ai-almost-had-3-names-2026-9">preferred term</a> for the tech.</p><p>"We will drive innovation, strengthen American competitiveness, and ensure this transformative technology works for the American people," the official said.</p><p>Sunday's soiree will mark the first sit-down meeting between Anthropic's CEO and the president. It comes as Amodei's <a target="" class="" href="https://www.businessinsider.com/dario-amodei-slow-ai-safety-essay-openai-hugging-face-hack-2026-9">calls for government regulation</a> of frontier AI companies have largely fallen flat among key power brokers in Washington.</p><p>In a recent post on Truth Social, Trump mocked Amodei and spurned his calls for regulation and a coordinated slowdown among frontier AI companies.</p><p>"The Trump Administration has stopped AI 'people' from doing bad, or potentially bad, 'things,' like Dario (Anthropic!), who is now pretending to be a 'perfect little angel,'" the president said on September 14. "We will continue to do so!"</p><p>Amodei was <a target="" class="" href="https://www.businessinsider.com/tech-leaders-join-donald-trump-dinner-with-xi-jinping-2026-9#the-seating-arrangement-1">notably absent</a> from a summit of tech honchos held at the White House last week during a visit by China's leader, Xi Jinping, to the US.</p><p>Last year, Amodei and Trump attended an AI and energy summit together in Pennsylvania. Amodei said then that the pair "had a <a target="" class="" href="https://www.businessinsider.com/wash-u-cio-says-openai-and-anthropic-are-in-trouble-2026-9">good conversation</a> about US leadership in AI."</p><p>News of Sunday's dinner meeting was first reported by Axios.</p><p>Though Trump has repeatedly signaled strong disinterest in regulating the US AI industry to stay ahead of China, the president announced a new "AI force" last week, which he said will "watch over" the industry.</p><p>No further details about the <a target="" class="" href="https://www.businessinsider.com/trump-ai-regulation-slowdown-anthropic-dario-amodei-9-2026">AI force</a> have emerged since Trump's post last week. Trump also said he would name a new "AI Czar," but he has not done so yet, though he did say that Treasury Secretary Scott Bessent was not in contention for the position.</p><div class="read-original">Read the original article on <a href="https://www.businessinsider.com/dario-amodei-to-have-dinner-with-president-trump-2026-9">Business Insider</a></div>