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\n\tPretty much every other year since 2002, Graydon Carter<\/a> \u2014 first as editor of Vanity Fair, <\/em>then as founder and editor of Air Mail \u2014 has hosted a party during the Cannes<\/a> Film Festival that has reliably been the most coveted invitation in a week packed with star-studded affairs. Hosted at the Hotel du Cap-Eden-Roc in Antibes, the bacchanal was long a Mediterranean corrolary to VF<\/em>\u2019s Oscar Party, where A-listers were less likely to talk business and more likely to jump in the pool fully clothed.<\/p>\n \n\tThe bash last made headlines<\/a> when Carter\u2019s then co-host \u2014 basic cable exec turned Warner Bros. CEO David Zaslav, whose self-enriching stewardship of the studio earned him few friends in Hollywood \u2014 drew mockery for aping Carter\u2019s style<\/a>. This year, on May 19, Carter will co-host his first Cannes party since leaving Air Mail<\/a> last October. <\/em>His co-hosts this time will be the ultimate Hollywood insider, CAA co-chairman and CEO Bryan Lourd, and an industry outsider: the ascendant Silicon Valley tycoon Dario Amodei<\/a>, CEO of the AI company Anthropic<\/a>.<\/p>\n \n\tCarter and Amodei may seem an odd pairing: the worldly, print-worshipping, bon-vivant old-media titan and the socially awkward, studiedly unflashy scientist presenting himself as the safe, responsible contender the race to shape the future of AI. Unlike his more extroverted rival and former boss Sam Altman of OpenAI, whose ill-fated forays<\/a> into Hollywood have been well documented, Amodei seems to have no interest in breaking into the entertainment business. But the bedfellows are less strange when you remember that Carter launched the Vanity Fair<\/em> New Establishment, and annual ranking of the most powerful people in tech and business, which later turned into an annual San Francisco summit of the same name, gathering the biggest names in Silicon Valley. And with Altman\u2019s reputation having suffered a few<\/a> dings<\/a> lately, there is arguably no bigger name than Amodei at the moment.<\/p>\n \n\t\u201cAI has more or less become a driving force in today\u2019s culture,\u201d Carter told The Hollywood Reporter<\/em> in an email interview. \u201cDario came to dinner last year and honestly, after talking to him, I felt like I had been working in wood. He\u2019s been among the most thoughtful and candid voices engaging with the questions AI raises and seems to genuinely want to hear from people outside of tech.\u201d<\/p>\n \n\tFollowing that evening in New York, Carter reached out to Amodei with an offer to co-host and help pay for the party at the Hotel du Cap. Both stand to benefit: Carter proves he still has the swagger and clout after his contentious departure from Air Mail (following its acquisition by Puck, the media outlet founded by his former assistant and prot\u00e9g\u00e9 Jon Kelly) to keep throwing his signature Cannes party and to team up with one of the most powerful young CEOs in the world. Amodei, meanwhile, will be given the chance to break out of the Silicon Valley bubble and be introduced to cultural movers and shakers.<\/p>\n \n\tThere\u2019s little risk of Amodei pulling a Zaslav and ripping off Carter\u2019s wardrobe. Though he presumably owns a tux at this point, he was influenced early on by effective altruism, a philanthropic movement known for scorning frivolity (e.g. black-tie galas, or, well, Hollywood parties) in favor of more data-driven ways of helping the afflicted (e.g. by creating safe AI).<\/p>\n \n\t\u201cHe reminded me more of a philosopher than a tech leader,\u201d says Carter of his dinner with Amodei. \u201cI found him to be deeply thoughtful, curious about the world, and \u2014 a rarity for Silicon Valley \u2014 honest.\u201d<\/p>\n \n\tAside from the presence of Amodei, the party will likely feel familiar to those who have attended in the past. \u201cI\u2019ve given this dinner at the Hotel du Cap off and on for the past 25 years. And it\u2019s one of the few big events that I\u2019ve actually enjoyed,\u201d says Carter. \u201cMany of the old Vanity Fair<\/em> hands are involved \u2014 so it doubles as a sort of reunion. And the guest list is stellar.\u201d Carter won\u2019t share names, but given his track record<\/a>, he wouldn\u2019t bandy the word \u201cstellar\u201d about lightly.<\/p>\n \n\tOne confirmed attendee is Lourd. \u201cI\u2019ve known Bryan for decades and he\u2019s the closest thing Hollywood has to a mayor,\u201d says Carter. \u201cWho wouldn\u2019t want to partner with him?\u201d (Carter, a producer on several films, says he remains involved in the business, with a number of documentary and TV projects in the works.)<\/p>\n \n\tCarter has made no secret of his fondness for all things analog, from film to paper, another reason his partnership with Amodei might raise eyebrows. But he admits to using Anthropic\u2019s flagship chatbot, Claude, on occasion. \u201cI\u2019ve found Claude to have a sort of pen-and-paper quality to it. It functions like one of the best assistants I had back in the Vanity Fair<\/em> days \u2014 except that it doesn\u2019t need water and doesn\u2019t dream of becoming an editor one day.\u201d<\/p>\n \n\tAsked what the last thing he\u2019s used it for is, Carter says, \u201cDrumming up appropriate answers to really difficult questions like these.\u201d<\/p>\n<\/div>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":" Pretty much every other year since 2002, Graydon Carter \u2014 first as editor of Vanity Fair, then as founder and editor of Air Mail \u2014 has hosted a party during the Cannes Film Festival that has reliably been the most coveted invitation in a week packed with star-studded affairs. 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