When I was in high school, one of the books I read for an English course was Aldous Huxley’s “Brave New World,” a novel that tells the story of how genetic engineering and other technology dehumanized civilization to create a dystopian society.

Although the book was written nearly 100 years ago and I read it nearly 60 years ago, it has become increasingly relevant in today’s world of artificial intelligence.

Anthropic CEO and co-founder Dario Amodei recently warned that AI advancement is compounding exponentially, potentially exceeding human capacity to manage it.

The question is whether AI is a cup half full or half empty.

AI offers incredible economic benefits, but at the cost of enormous economic disruption. Economic output is accelerated, replacing human labor. This will not only eliminate jobs, but may also cause human critical thinking and creativeness to atrophy.

Amodei argues that the rush to power, coupled with enormous profitability for those who wield such power, is accelerating technological advancement, potentially “creating a situation where we may be handed almost unimaginable power without the maturity to handle it.”

Clearly, AI has great........

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