Anthropic CEO Dario Amodei says humanity is closer than expected to where AI models are as intelligent and capable as humans.

Amodei is also concerned about the potential implications of human-level AI.

“Things that are powerful can do good things, and they can do bad things,” Amodei warned, “With great power comes great responsibility.”

Indeed, Amodei suggests Artificial General Intelligence could exceed human capabilities within the next three years, a transformative shift in technology that should bring both unprecedented opportunities and risks—whether we’re prepared or not.

“If you just eyeball the rate at which these capabilities are increasing, it does make you think that we’ll get there by 2026 or 2027,” Amodei told interviewer Lex Friedman. That’s assuming no major technical roadblocks emerge, he said.

It’s, of course, problematic: AI can turn evil and cause potentially catastrophic events, the CEO said.

He also highlighted concerns over the long-standing “correlation,” as he framed it, between high human intelligence and a reluctance to engage in harmful actions. That correlation between brains and relative altru

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Author: Jose Antonio Lanz