‘Wake up to the risks of AI, they are almost here,’ Anthropic boss warns

Dario Amodei questions if human systems are ready to handle the almost unimaginable power' that is potentially imminent'

• Quarter of Britons fear losing jobs to AI in next five years

Humanity is entering a phase of artificial intelligence development that will test who we are as a species", the boss of the AI startup Anthropic has said, arguing that the world needs to wake up" to the risks.

Dario Amodei, a co-founder and the chief executive of the company behind the hit chatbot Claude, voiced his fears in a 19,000-word essay titled The adolescence of technology".