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In just a few years, AI has gone from a specialist topic to something everyone has opinions on. It has been praised as miraculous, condemned as dangerous, and debated everywhere from boardrooms to dinner tables. But between these poles of euphoria and dread lies the reality most of us now face: a technology powerful enough…

“I won’t lie to you – there are real dangers,” said Anthropic CEO and cofounder Dario Amodei about the development of artificial intelligence. “And I think for too long the industry lied to people about the fact that this technology had risks.”

The Industrial Revolution, for example, created jobs and made mass-produced goods widely available and affordable. It also contributed to global warming, child-labor exploitation, the rise of robber barons, and horrific factory conditions. The AI revolution may prove even more consequential, producing outcomes at both the positive and negative extremes that dwarf those of earlier technological…