WASHINGTON—After agreeing to sign a statement of principles to keep artificial-intelligence models safe Tuesday, AI chief executives surrounded President Trump outside the White House to present the image of a unified industry addressing the public’s fears. Behind the scenes, industry leaders including Jensen Huang of Nvidia had just questioned Anthropic’s Dario Amodei about his warnings about the dangers of AI, people familiar with the matter said.
The executives asked Amodei why he was being so extreme in public about the capabilities of AI models and risks they posed following a lunch in the East Room with about two dozen CEOs. Amodei told the other executives that it is important to be honest with the public about model capabilities and not play down risks, some of the people said.
Trump and House Speaker Mike Johnson got the top AI companies to agree to the principles at the lunch, but the questioning of Amodei is the latest indication of tensions under the surface between Anthropic and the rest of the industry. Amodei has previously criticized the White House and competitors for playing down safety concerns and warned about AI models carrying out cyberattacks and extreme job losses.
Anthropic has sought to mend fences with the administration recently and is gearing up for an initial public offering it hopes will value the company at some $2 trillion. The company is still reeling from a pair of bruising battles with the administration earlier this year that included a 2 ½-week shutdown of two of its models.
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