The Trump White House Is over Anthropic CEO Dario Amodei
Anthropic CEO Dario Amodei has fallen out of favor with the Trump White House, marking a shift in the relationship between the AI company and the administration. The article details how Amodei and Anthropic once had a constructive dialogue with Trump officials but now face a more hostile political environment.
Background
Dario Amodei is the CEO of Anthropic, the AI company behind the Claude chatbot. Anthropic has positioned itself as a safety-focused "good actor" in Silicon Valley — in contrast with rivals like OpenAI — and Amodei has publicly criticized the Biden administration's AI policies as too heavy-handed. Despite that, the incoming Trump White House reportedly has no interest in working with him, according to Wired's sources. That signals a broader shift: Trump advisers prefer figures like Marc Andreessen and Elon Musk, who are more aligned with the "effective accelerationism" (e/acc) movement, which argues that AI development should be sped up, not constrained by safety regulation. Amodei's fall from favor highlights how the political landscape around AI is realigning, with safety-minded voices being sidelined in favor of accelerationists.