By Steven Levy
Publication Date: 2026-02-06 16:33:00
Anthropic is caught in a paradox: Among the top AI companies, the company is the most security-focused and leads research into how models can go wrong. But even if the security problems identified are far from solved, Anthropic is pushing just as aggressively as its competitors towards the next, potentially more dangerous level of artificial intelligence. Your main task is to figure out how to resolve this contradiction.
Last month, Anthropic released two documents that both acknowledged the risks associated with the path being taken and suggested a path that could be taken to escape the paradox. “The Adolescence of Technology,” a lengthy blog post from CEO Dario Amodei, is nominally about “confronting and overcoming the risks of powerful AI,” but is more devoted to the former than the latter. Amodei tactfully describes the challenge as “daunting,” but his portrayal of AI’s risks is made worse, as he notes, by the high likelihood that the technology…
