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Research2026-08-11

Anthropic CEO Dario Amodei published a long essay, "The Adolescence of Technology," dated January 2026, as a counterpart to his 2024 essay "Machines of Loving Grace." He restates his definition of "powerful AI" — a system smarter than Nobel laureates across most fields, able to work autonomously for hours to weeks, with millions of parallel instances running at 10-100x human speed, summarized as a "country of geniuses in a datacenter" — and argues it could arrive in 1-2 years, though possibly later. He frames risks in five categories: model autonomy, misuse for destruction, misuse for seizing power, economic disruption including mass unemployment and wealth concentration, and indirect destabilizing effects. He argues against "doomerism" and against denial, favours voluntary company action plus surgical, minimal-burden regulation, and notes AI writing much of Anthropic's code is already accelerating its own development.

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