Anthropic’s Amodei heads to the White House as Washington fights over Mythos access - The Next Web

Anthropic CEO Dario Amodei is meeting with White House Chief of Staff Susie Wiles on Friday to negotiate terms for Washington's access to the company's frontier AI model, Mythos. The meeting follows Anthropic's blacklisting by the Pentagon after the company refused to remove safety restrictions from its models for military use.

The Pentagon blacklisted Anthropic due to its stance on maintaining safety protocols, which the military viewed as an impediment. This development occurs less than two months after the White House and other agencies labeled Anthropic a potential risk to the national security supply chain. Amodei's discussions with Wiles aim to establish a framework for government utilization of Mythos despite these prior tensions.

This situation highlights ongoing conflicts between AI safety standards and national security interests within U.S. policy circles. The outcome could influence how frontier AI models are integrated into governmental operations and set precedents for corporate-government negotiations on AI access and safety parameters.