Trump Hosts Anthropic's Dario Amodei, Rejects Calls to Slow AI Development

My take: On Sunday night, Trump had his first one-on-one dinner with Dario Amodei, Anthropic's CEO (the company behind Claude), after months of public friction between the two. Amodei has been asking the industry to slow its pace of development for safety reasons. Trump's answer was that the US is a year and a half ahead of China and has no intention of giving that up. Afterward, a White House official summed it up this way: "America will lead the world in Super Intelligence, while protecting American consumers."

Here's what's worth noticing: while the new name ("Super Intelligence") sounds like a promise of power, the person sitting across that table has spent months warning that we need to slow down. That tension, speed versus caution, is the real conversation happening behind the renaming, and it wasn't resolved at that dinner.

I keep coming back to this practically: today's AI didn't change one bit because of this dinner, or because of the new name. It's still the same tool that makes you more efficient at your work, not more intelligent. The question this leaves me with is for you: does the pace AI is moving at worry you more, or does the risk of falling behind if you don't use it worry you more?