Anthropic CEO Dario Amodei is urging both U.S. policymakers and industry to wake up to the idea that powerful AI constituting a “country of geniuses in a data center” may pose “the single most serious national security threat” faced by humanity in a century. (Amodei did not elaborate on which particular national security threat from a century ago he was referring to.)
In a new essay, “The Adolescence of Technology,” Amodei argues that “powerful AI” systems may materialize as soon as the next one to two years. The essay, published Monday on Amodei’s website, darioamodei.com, follows on from “Machines of Loving Grace,” which explored the revolutionary benefits of powerful AI.
