Anthropic boss issues warning about ‘unimaginable’ power of AI

Dario Amodei has urged humanity to “wake up” and address existential risks before it’s too late

The CEO of leading AI company Anthropic, Dario Amodei, has issued an ominous public warning that humanity is on the cusp of being handed “almost unimaginable power,” for which it is dangerously unprepared.

In a nearly 20,000-word essay titled “The Adolescence of Technology,” Amodei sketches a near-future where AI systems vastly more capable...