Trump tells Axios he no longer views Anthropic as national security threat

June 19 (Reuters) - U.S. President ‌Donald Trump ​said ​he might have viewed artificial intelligence company Anthropic as a national security threat last week, but he no ‌longer does, according to an interview with "The Axios Show" ⁠published on Friday.

Senior Anthropic technical staff were scheduled to meet with Trump administration ‌officials earlier this week to ‌discuss a dispute over foreign access to its most advanced AI models, Fable 5 and Mythos 5. The company last ​week disabled access for all users to those models after Trump ordered Anthropic to block foreign nationals from accessing them.

Here ⁠are some of the details from the Axios interview:

• When asked if he viewed ​Anthropic, or its CEO Dario Amodei, as a threat to national security, Trump said: "Well, not now, but a ​week ago, maybe."

• Trump told Axios ‌that Amodei responded to the administration's export control directive "very quickly" and "responsibly."

• Trump and other G7 leaders ⁠met with tech bosses, including Amodei, at a summit in France this week.

• Trump did not rule out using emergency powers under the Defense ⁠Production Act against Anthropic, according to Axios.

• "I have the power to use ​a lot of things," Trump said of the DPA. "But I'm not sure I have to do that."

• Asked to comment on Trump's interview, an Anthropic ‌spokesperson said: "We are grateful to the administration for their ongoing partnership in working to get this ‌matter resolved as quickly as possible. We remain committed to working ⁠alongside them towards our shared ‌goals of protecting critical ​infrastructure and making sure the U.S. leads in AI.”

(Reporting by Ryan Patrick Jones in Toronto; Editing by ‌Nia Williams)

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