Anthropic CEO Replaced Amid "Weirdo" White House Meetings

Anthropic CEO Dario Amodei has been replaced by co-founder Tom Brown at high-stakes White House meetings. This change happened after Amodei was reportedly "being a weirdo" and difficult to engage with officials. Anthropic workers went to Washington after the US government placed strict foreign export controls on their new "Mythos" and "Fable" AI bots. Officials found Amodei difficult to talk to and he didn't listen to their concerns, according to Wired. Now, Tom Brown and Sarah Heck, the company's public policy chief, are representing Anthropic in these discussions. The government imposed export controls after Amazon CEO Andy Jassy warned that researchers found ways to bypass the AI models' safety features. Anthropic then pulled the models offline entirely. The National Security Agency had tested Mythos and found it identified vulnerabilities in secure government systems within hours. These discussions are important because they will determine the future of these powerful AI models and their regulations.