Humanity “needs to wake up” to the potentially catastrophic risks posed by powerful AI systems in the years to come, according to Anthropic boss Dario Amodei, whose company is among those pushing the frontiers of the technology. The essay marked a stark warning from one of the most powerful entrepreneurs in the AI industry that safeguards around AI are inadequate. Trump signed an executive order last month to hamper state-level efforts to regulate AI companies, and published an AI action plan last year laying out plans to accelerate US innovation. In the essay, Amodei warned of sweeping job losses and a “concentration of economic power” and wealth in Silicon Valley as a result of AI. Amodei was an early employee at OpenAI but left to cofound Anthropic in 2020 after clashing with Sam Altman over OpenAI’s direction and AI guardrails.

Source: The Irish Times January 28, 2026 19:05 UTC