Dario Amodei to have dinner with President Trump in a rare meeting
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When one of the most safety-forward lab CEOs gets rare one-on-one time with the president, AI risk moves from whitepapers into direct political negotiation. Policy-sensitive roadmaps — especially around frontier training and deployment — should now assume more volatile, personality-driven inputs from DC.
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