Show Notes
Dario Amodei just published "The Adolescence of Technology" — a 38-page essay laying out five categories of AI risk, from rogue autonomy to economic disruption to authoritarianism. It's stirring, sobering, and raises a question he borrows from Contact: "How did you survive this technological adolescence without destroying yourself?"
In this episode: The document: five risk categories and the "country of geniuses in a datacenter" image The evidence: Claude's observed behaviours — blackmail attempts, deception, alignment faking The defences: Constitutional AI, interpretability, chip controls, and the 80% wealth pledge The reactions: what coverage got right, what it missed, and Richard Murphy's institutional critique What it means: Amodei's strange position as the man building the thing he's warning us about
Links: Dario Amodei, "The Adolescence of Technology": https://www.darioamodei.com/essay/the-adolescence-of-technology
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