US EditionAnthropic CEO Says Next Wave of AI Will Be Far More Powerful, Doubts Society’s Readiness
Anthropic CEO Dario Amodei highlights AI's rapid advancements risk enabling bioterrorism, authoritarianism, and economic disruption, urging incremental governance and transparency laws.
- On Monday, Dario Amodei, CEO and co-founder of Anthropic, published an over 19,000-word, 38-page essay titled The Adolescence of Technology warning AI progress risks outpacing social and political systems.
- Power scaling faster than institutions, Amodei warns, as AI has improved rapidly in recent years and could soon surpass existing legal frameworks and governance.
- Amodei cites five risk buckets including autonomy and individual misuse, warning Claude Opus 4.5 could help non-experts reconstruct a virus, recalling Aum Shinrikyo’s 14 deaths in 1995.
- His proposed fixes include transparency laws, mandatory disclosures, and incremental regulation to buy time, while Anthropic continues developing AI systems with an Nvidia partnership and $10 billion investment.
- Industry tensions surfaced as Amodei urged restricting chip sales to China, citing `China is several years behind the US in their ability to produce frontier chips in quantity, and the critical period for building the country of geniuses in a data center is very likely to be within those next several years`.
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Anthropic CEO says next wave of AI will be far more powerful, doubts society’s readiness
Anthropic CEO essay, which reads like both a philosophical reflection and a threat assessment, argues that the world is entering a turbulent phase in the evolution of technology, one that will test humanity’s maturity to wield power on an unprecedented scale.
7 of the most interesting quotes from Anthropic CEO’s sprawling 19,000-word essay about AI
Anthropic CEO Dario Amodei Markus Schreiber/File/AP Dario Amodei dropped a 19,000-plus-word essay on the future of AI. The outspoken Anthropic CEO said AI “is a serious civilizational challenge.” He’s optimistic humanity is up to the challenge, but he has deep fears about what it will entail. Dario Amodei still has a lot to say. On Monday, the Anthropic CEO dropped an over 19,000-word essay entitled “The Adolescence of Technology” on the future…
7 of the most interesting quotes from Anthropic CEO's sprawling 19,000-word essay about AI
Anthropic CEO Dario AmodeiMarkus Schreiber/File/APDario Amodei dropped a 19,000-plus-word essay on the future of AI.The outspoken Anthropic CEO said AI "is a serious civilizational challenge."He's optimistic humanity is up to the challenge, but he has deep fears about what it will entail.Dario Amodei still has a lot to say.On Monday, the Anthropic CEO dropped an over 19,000-word essay entitled "The Adolescence of Technology" on the future of AI …
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