Hacker News
Anthropic CEO Dario Amodei issues a stark warning about the imminent danger of super-human AI, urging swift intervention to prevent civilization-level damage. He believes governments, tech companies, and the public are underestimating the potential risks.
AI 生成摘要
Anthropic執行長Dario Amodei發出嚴峻警告，指出超人類智慧即將帶來迫在眉睫的危險，呼籲迅速介入以防止文明級別的損害。他認為政府、科技公司和公眾都嚴重低估了潛在風險。
Search
Add Axios as your preferred source to
see more of our stories on Google.
Dario Amodei in Davos, Switzerland, last week. Photo: Krisztian Bocsi/Bloomberg via Getty Images
Anthropic CEO Dario Amodei, the architect of the most powerful and popular AI system for global business, is warning of the imminent "real danger" that super-human intelligence will cause civilization-level damage absent smart, speedy intervention.
Why it matters: Amodei's company has built among the most advanced LLM systems in the world.
Amodei, one of the most vocal moguls about AI risk, worries deeply that government, tech companies and the public are vastly underestimating what could go wrong. His memo — a sequel to his famous 2024 essay, "Machines of Loving Grace: How AI Could Transform the World for the Better" — was written to jar others, provoke a public debate and detail the risks.
Amodei's concerns flow from his strong belief that within a year or two, we will face the stark reality of what he calls a "country of geniuses in a datacenter."
Among Amodei's specific warnings to the world in his essay, "The Adolescence of Technology: Confronting and Overcoming the Risks of Powerful AI":
Call to action: "[W]ealthy individuals have an obligation to help solve this problem," Amodei says. "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."
The bottom line: "Humanity needs to wake up, and this essay is an attempt — a possibly futile one, but it's worth trying — to jolt people awake," Amodei writes. "The years in front of us will be impossibly hard, asking more of us than we think we can give."
[Image blocked: Image]
[Image blocked: Image]
[Image blocked: Image]
[Image blocked: Image]
[Image blocked: Image]
Axios Media Inc., 2026