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President Donald Trump is scheduled to meet Anthropic CEO Dario Amodei for dinner as the AI company continues its legal fight with the administration over restrictions on its products for Defense Department work. A federal appeals court has upheld the government's designation of Anthropic as a supply chain risk, allowing the Pentagon to remove its Claude models from military systems. The meeting comes as Amodei urges the AI industry to slow development and warns that advanced systems could pose major risks within six to 12 months.
on artificial intelligence but also someone who's sparred with the Trump administration over the military's potential use of AI. Trump told reporters after returning to Joint Base Andrews in Maryland that he was grabbing dinner at 10 p.m. with Dario Amodei.
The meal comes just two days after Amodei's companyin a court case against the government over its barring its products for Defense Department work. The dispute between the AI company and the Pentagon broke out in February when Trump and Defense Secretary Pete Hegseth accused Anthropic of endangering national security and designated the company a supply chain risk. Amodei hadover concerns the company's products could be used for mass surveillance or autonomous armed drones.
A federal appeals court on Friday rejected the artificial intelligence lab's challenge to the government's labeling of it as a. The decision allows the Pentagon to continue to remove Anthropic's Claude models from its systems. Trump has been a champion of artificial intelligence, often warning that it must remain ahead of China in the technological arms race. But Amodei said earlier this month that the artificial-intelligence industry should slow its fast-moving development to givetime to catch up.
Without such a slowdown, Amodei warned that within six to 12 months AI could be capable of leading a swarm of agents that could take over the entire internet. The warning comes as worries about AI grow inside and outside the industry and reports continue to emerge about increasingly powerful systems that solve problems beyond human capacity but could also go rogue and carry out other, more harmful tasks.
The worries have grown so loud that the CEO of OpenAI, the company behind ChatGPT, said in an interview with Fortune that his company would wait until next year to start selling its stock to investors on Wall Street as it focuses on safety. Ben Finley, The Associated Press President Donald Trump speaks with reporters upon arriving, Sunday, Sept. 27, 2026, at Joint Base Andrews, Md.
- The Associated Press FILE - Pages from the Anthropic website and the company's logos are displayed on a computer screen in New York, Feb. 26, 2026. - The Associated Press Dario Amodei, CEO of Anthropic, speaks remotely during a Security Council meeting on artificial intelligence at the 81st session of the United Nations General Assembly at United Nations headquarters, Wednesday, Sept. 23, 2026.
- The Associated Press FILE - Dario Amodei, CEO and co-founder of Anthropic, attends the annual meeting of the World Economic Forum in Davos, Switzerland, Jan. 23, 2025. - The Associated Press
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