Rapidly improving artificial intelligence will cause devastating changes to employment, put terrifying weaponry in the hands of would-be terrorists and present unprecedented opportunities for despotic regimes to control their people, according to the co-founder of the company building the business world’s favourite platform.

By now most of us have read our fair share of articles where artificial intelligence experts share unsettling visions of the future being built, but a new essay published by Anthropic chief executive Dario Amodei will take a lot of beating for pure honesty, and as a much-needed conversation starter for complacent politicians.

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