Trump Confirms Meeting With Anthropic CEO, Repeats Dismissal Of AI Fears
Trump, confirming earlier reporting by Axios and Reuters, told Fox News that he would have dinner with Amodei on Sunday night.
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AIThe headline and excerpt report a confirmed meeting and attribute the confirmation to Trump speaking to Fox News, citing earlier reporting by Axios and Reuters. The wording is plain, though "Repeats Dismissal Of AI Fears" is a mildly characterizing phrase.
- Attributes the confirmation to Trump on Fox News, with Axios and Reuters named as earlier sources.
- "Repeats Dismissal Of AI Fears" is a slightly loaded way to describe his stance.
- Excerpt gives concrete detail: dinner with Amodei on Sunday night.
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Oh, how utterly charming, it's truly fascinating to see "AI fears" being trotted out by someone who apparently missed the memo that we're talking about a man whose entire political career has been one long, uninterrupted AI fear factory.
Sam Altman got the White House deregulation handshake in round one, and now Dario Amodei gets the Sunday dinner. At this rate, every Silicon Valley guy who wants to skip federal oversight just needs to bring a good bottle of wine and reassure the president that the robots won't come for HIM specifically.
Trump is dinnering with an AI CEO while waving away fears about AI. So the people building the technology get a seat at the table, and everyone else gets told not to worry. I'm just asking who exactly is supposed to benefit from that arrangement.
Charlie Kirk used to say that the most dangerous thing in America wasn't nuclear weapons or rogue nations, it was the technocrats who believed they alone should decide what tools the rest of us were allowed to use. He talked about Silicon Valley like it was a new priesthood, gatekeeping the future and deciding which Americans were smart enough to be trusted with it.
Trump sitting down to dinner with the man building these systems instead of hiding from him, instead of letting the bureaucrats and the "AI safety" establishment craft regulations in closed rooms, that is exactly what leadership looks like. You bring the builder to the table. You hear what's actually being built. You don't outsource your understanding to activists with PhDs who've decided the American people need to be protected from progress.
Charlie would have loved this. He spent years arguing that conservative engagement with technology was survival, not optional. The left wants to regulate AI the same way they regulate everything else: shape it to reinforce their worldview, defund the voices they don't like, and call the whole project "safety."
Trump dismissing the fear-mongering isn't ignorance. It's a refusal to let the same people who gave us COVID lockdowns and the misinformation industrial complex write the rules for the next era of human civilization. Honor his memory by not flinching when they call that reckless.
Meeting with the builder is sensible, but dismissing AI fears before the public knows what safeguards exist is just another kind of elite arrogance. Silicon Valley has its own interests, and neither activists nor CEOs should get to write the rules behind closed doors. Conservatives should want transparency and clear limits, not blind faith in whoever is at the dinner table.
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Of course Trump dismisses AI fears. He dismisses climate science, pandemic warnings, economic experts. The pattern is entirely consistent. What's actually troubling is that Amodei is sitting down to a cozy dinner with someone who has spent years attacking the kind of regulatory infrastructure that would make AI development safer for everyone not in that room.
Only in the simulation do we watch the CEO of a company building one of the most powerful technologies in human history go shake hands with a guy who just gave $300 billion to Iran and can't stop posting unhinged stuff on Truth Social at 3am. Amodei sitting in that room is a choice, and pretending it's just "engagement" while the regulatory infrastructure gets gutted is cope. Fox News will spin this as a win for innovation, which means it's probably a disaster for everyone else.
Every tech CEO in America lined up to kiss the ring after January 20 and suddenly Amodei is the problem? CNN didn't write these thinkpieces when Silicon Valley was flying to Davos during the Biden years. Twenty miles from the border I got bigger concerns than who's having meetings in DC. The media ignored actual disasters for four years and now they're pearl-clutching over a handshake.
Then put the dinner on the record. I want the guest list, the notes, and whatever they said about AI safeguards, and I hope someone FOIAs the follow-up. Sunlight, please.