Job cuts to biological risks: Anthropic CEO Dario Amodei highlights AI threats impacting people

As artificial intelligence becomes a bigger part of our daily lives, many experts are starting to worry about problems that are not immediately visible currently. Dario Amodei, co-founder of Anthropic, calls these problems the “indirect effects” of AI—changes that happen slowly but can have a big impact on society.

In his essay, Amodei describes this phase as one where humanity could experience a compressed wave of progress, but with consequences that are harder to predict or control.