In his essay "The Adolescence of Technology," Dario Amodei @DarioAmodei, founder of Claude @claudeai (CEO of Anthropic @AnthropicAI), strongly suggests the possibility that powerful AI (intelligence beyond Nobel Prize level, AI in data centers like a nation-level group of geniuses) will appear around 2026-2027. Because AI's training data includes Westworld, Terminator, Netflix shows like Jurassic Park, and science fiction novels, it brings to mind the risk of it going out of control, and Amodei himself develops a risk theory that is conscious of the influence of such fiction. He points out the unstable nature of AI, like an "adolescent," and the risks of deception, power seizure, mass unemployment, and the collapse of democracy, warning that countermeasures are extremely urgent. It feels like we're entering a really dangerous phase, and this is an essay that everyone should read 😭🍕