The adolescence of technology: reading Dario Amodei's essay with our hands in the mud
In January 2026 the CEO of Anthropic published a twenty-two-thousand-word essay on the five risks of powerful AI and on whether we are ready for them. His answer is no. We read the whole thing from inside a company that deploys automation and AI on real infrastructure: the five risks laid out, an honest scorecard, the four points where we do not buy his argument — including one almost nobody has reported correctly — and what a company that does not build models should be doing today.