Anthropic CEO Dario Amodei’s 20,000-word essay on how AI ‘will test’ humanity is a must-read—but more for his remedies than his warnings

Dario Amodei, CEO of AI company Anthropic, dropped a 20,000 word essay on Monday called “The Adolescence of Technology,” in which he warned that AI was about to “test who we are as a species” and that “humanity is about to be handed almost unimaginable power, and it is deeply unclear whether our social, political, and technological systems possess the maturity to wield it.”

The essay, which was published on Amodei’s personal blog, has generated a tremendous amount of buzz on social media.