Anthropic a notable absence at state dinnerpublished at 00:48 BST 25 September
00:48 BST 25 September
Ione Wells
Reporting from Washington DC
We’ve just seen the full list of people invited to this state dinner. As we’ve been reporting, it includes some of the biggest names in tech from companies like OpenAI, Apple, Meta, X, Amazon, Google, Nvidia and many others.
But there is a notable absence of Anthropic – one of the biggest and most valuable AI firms in the world. I asked Anthropic this morning if they had not been invited, or if they chose not to be there, but I haven’t received a reply yet.
I find this interesting, as one of the big talking points around this summit has been whether or not the US and China could, in the future, co-operate on issues around AI safety.
Anthropic has been particular hawkish when it comes to not just the risks that AI – if left unregulated – could pose, but also on China.
Its CEO, Dario Amodei, warned in an essay that China taking the lead in the AI race would pose a “grave danger” for the US and the world – something China strongly hit back at. Its foreign ministry said narratives of “threat” only served to disrupt the process of AI governance.
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Sanjay Mehrotra, CEO of Micron Technology, and his wife Sangeeta Mehrotra arrive for a state dinner