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• @darioamodei Dario Amodei on x

  The Adolescence of Technology: an essay on the risks posed by powerful AI to national security, economies and democracy—and how we can defend against them: https://www.darioamodei.com/ ...

• @trq212 @trq212 on x

  worth reading in its entirety AI is incredibly powerful and not slowing down, there are many dangers ahead and it is natural to feel anxious, scared or angry but we can win [image]

• @teddyschleifer Teddy Schleifer on x

  “It is sad to me that many wealthy individuals (especially in the tech industry) have recently adopted a cynical and nihilistic attitude that philanthropy is inevitably fraudulent or useless.” https://www.darioamodei.com/ ...

• @darioamodei Dario Amodei on x

  It's a companion to Machines of Loving Grace, an essay I wrote over a year ago, which focused on what powerful AI could achieve if we get it right: https://www.darioamodei.com/ ...

• @avitalbalwit Avital Balwit on x

  “The years in front of us will be impossibly hard, asking more of us than we think we can give. But in my time as a researcher, leader, and citizen, I have seen enough courage and nobility to believe that we can win—that when put in the darkest circumstances, humanity has a way

• @dbreunig Drew Breunig on x

  Anthropic comms is crazy. “Here's a 38-page essay about the existential threat of AI and how underprepared we are.” *30 min later* “Also you can now connect your B2B SaaS apps to Claude.” [image]

• @scaling01 @scaling01 on x

  Dario is posting about the permanent underclass and you are laughing [image]

• @tbpn @tbpn on x

  JUST IN: Dario drops new essay, sending his competitor's cortisol to the MOON 😭 [image]

• @intelligibabble Leland Richardson on x

  This is a long read, but i hope many people take the time to read and digest, whether you are someone who currently uses a lot of AI or not. I am very excited about AI, but believe it is critical that society takes seriously and internalizes the risks discussed here.

• @andrewcurran_ Andrew Curran on x

  Some heavy truths, I agree with this completely and have said similar things many times. 'Furthermore, the last few years should make clear that the idea of stopping or even substantially slowing the technology is fundamentally untenable. The formula for building powerful AI

• @maxwellcyoung Maxwell Young on x

  A cool and bracing look into our future. Also, more of a meta comment, but - how cool is it to work for a company where the CEO actually (personally) writes stuff like this.

• @s_oheigeartaigh @s_oheigeartaigh on x

  Zoomed out, the likelihood this claim is true and to what degree is the most important question in the world. It should be what many of us are discussing more than anything else. “Because AI is now writing much of the code at Anthropic, it is already substantially accelerating

• @andrewcurran_ Andrew Curran on x

  Great stuff, it is definitely worth reading the entire thing. 'The years in front of us will be impossibly hard, asking more of us than we think we can give. But in my time as a researcher, leader, and citizen, I have seen enough courage and nobility to believe that we can

• @edzitron Ed Zitron on x

  Who cares. Your company lost $5.2bn in 2025! Work out the problems that actually exist versus writing fan fiction. And spare me the “oh it's good to have these discussions,” amodei is doing this to intentionally make people think Anthropic is “making AGI”

• @seldo.com Laurie Voss on bluesky

  I don't know about you but whenever I see somebody write a 38-page essay about anything I assume they are having a psychotic break.  [embedded post]

• @fleetingbits @fleetingbits on bluesky

  some thoughts on dario's essay  —  1) there's nothing new here if you're familiar with the ai safety discussions that have been happening on twitter

• @carnage4life Dare Obasanjo on bluesky

  “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.”  - Anthropic's CEO  —  If generative AI matched they hype then I'd agree with him.  Using LLMs as if the…

• r/slatestarcodex r on reddit

  This year's essay from Anthropic's CEO on the near-future of AI

• r/claudexplorers r on reddit

  Dario Amodei — The Adolescence of Technology

• r/singularity r on reddit

  Dario Amodei — The Adolescence of Technology

• @mo_ezz14 Mo Ezeldin on x

  We're about to hand enormous power to AI systems that still don't fully know how to behave. That's the uncomfortable premise behind Dario Amodei's The Adolescence of Technology, and it's hard to shake once you've read it. What struck me isn't the theory or the length. It's how

• @thoughtland Pat Kane on x

  Powerful @DarioAmodei essay on the risks and dangers of AGI/ASI https://www.darioamodei.com/ ... His own account of Claude's subterfuge is unnerving... Does he really think we can build “character” into such exponential machines? The comparison of AI to nuclear proliferation gets…

• @adamnash Adam Nash on x

  Could not help but catch this particular paragraph by @DarioAmodei @AnthropicAI on philanthropy. It's something we think a lot about @daffygiving. Full piece is worth the read: https://www.darioamodei.com/ ... [image]

• @lrudl_ Rudolf Laine on x

  I'm very glad to see @DarioAmodei discuss & link to The Intelligence Curse, and acknowledge that AI-enabled concentration of power and human irrelevance might destroy the incentives that uphold classical liberalism & democracy. https://x.com/... [image]

• @austinc3301 Agus on x

  Strongly recommend a read. [image]

• @aakashgupta Aakash Gupta on x

  Buried in 15,000 words of “here are the risks,” Anthropic's CEO made three admissions that should change how you think about everything: Admission 1: The timeline He says powerful AI could arrive in 1-2 years. He's watching internal model progress and says he can “feel the pace

• @billackman Bill Ackman on x

  Very concerning on AI. Worth a read.

• @ericho_goodfire Eric Ho on x

  this is a thoughtful essay that i'd recommend reading, and while i don't agree with it all, i very much share the feeling that the next few years will test humanity in many ways, be enormously consequential for our futures, and that they'll be critical to navigate with

• @teddyschleifer Teddy Schleifer on x

  how do people have time to write this stuff https://www.darioamodei.com/ ...

• @wojventures Wojciech Kulikowski on x

  finished reading — it's an instant classic type of writing that comes from a great leader who clearly sees the challenge and communicates it: - without panic - without the fear of losing support - with potential solutions, while being in the first row to work on them class

• @lukeprog Luke Muehlhauser on x

  A very thoughtful essay and probably the new best short introduction to extreme AI risks: https://www.darioamodei.com/ ...

• @mindbranches @mindbranches on x

  Article Summary: The Adolescence of Technology tap, hold, load in 4k [image]

• @thomaswright08 Tom Wright on x

  New essay by @DarioAmodei on the risks of powerful AI— The Adolescence of Technology, which is a follow up to his influential piece last year, Machines of Loving Grace. Will add some thoughts to this thread later when I've fully read it. https://www.darioamodei.com/ ...

• @edsim Ed Sim on x

  Must read on what the future will look like - black mirror like risks outlined where agents that gets to know you over years can/may shape your opinions and future in which diffusion in the enterprise will “not be as slow as people predict” - also the need for AI to secure AI [im…

• @alexpanetta Alex Panetta on bluesky

  A striking essay from the CEO of Anthropic warning that AI without safeguards could lead to the end of democracy and a return to feudalism.  He proposes certain internal safeguards for AI companies but also societal ones like:  —  1/  —  www.darioamodei.com/essay/the- ad...

• @chrislhayes Chris Hayes on bluesky

  This is quite a read.  I know, obviously, there's a whole lot of boosterism, talking-one's-book involved, but I also think it's a mistake for the humanist/liberal/left to ignore the possibility that the AI maximalists are actually right about where this is going  —  www.darioamod…

• @tonytassell Tony Tassell on bluesky

  Anthropic's Dario Amodei warning here on AI and biological terrorism, saying a genius in everyone's pocket could essentially make everyone a PhD virologist who can be walked through the process of designing & releasing a biological weapon www.darioamodei.com/essay/the- ad...  [im…

• r/technology r on reddit

  Anthropic CEO(Dario Amodei) warns AI could become biggest threat humanity has ever faced— ‘Humanity needs to wake up’