Washington -The president donald trump I was scheduled to have dinner Sunday night with the chief executive officer (CEO) of Anthropicone of the most prominent figures in the field of artificial intelligence, but also someone who has had confrontations with the Trump Administration over the possible use of AI by the military.
Trump told reporters after returning to Joint Base Andrews in Maryland that I was going to have dinner at 11:00 pm with Dario Amodei. The dinner takes place just two days after Amodei’s company suffered a setback in a court case against the Government over a ban on its products being used in Ministry of Defense projects.
The dispute between the artificial intelligence company and the Pentagon erupted in February, when Trump and Defense Secretary Pete Hegseth accused Anthropic of endangering national security and called it a supply chain risk. Amodei had refused to back down amid concerns that the company’s products could be used for mass surveillance or autonomous armed drones.
A federal appeals court on Friday rejected the artificial intelligence company’s appeal against the government’s characterization that it poses a risk to the supply chain. The decision allows the Pentagon to continue removing Anthropic’s “Claude” models from its systems.
Trump has been a great defender of artificial intelligence and has warned on numerous occasions to stay ahead of China in the technological race. However, Amodei said earlier this month that the artificial intelligence sector should slow down its rapid development to give time for security measures to catch up. Without that slowdown, Amodei warned that, within six to 12 months, AI could be able to command a swarm of agents that would take over the entire Internet.
The warning comes as concerns about AI are growing both inside and outside the industry, and reports continue to emerge of increasingly powerful systems that solve problems beyond human capacity, but could also go haywire and perform other, more damaging tasks.
The concern has reached such a magnitude that the CEO of OpenAI, the company that created ChatGPT, stated in an interview with Fortune that his company would wait until next year to start selling its shares to Wall Street investors, since its priority is security.
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