Welcome to episode 186 of the AI for Career Success podcast from Curt Robbins. Subscribe today to get smarter than your competition.

In this episode, hosts Daphne Blake and Fred Jones unpack the recent article from everyone's favorite nerd, Anthropic CEO Dario Amodei entitled "The Adolescence of Technology" that was published in January.

They summarize the most important points from the Amodei essay, which is 15,000 words and requires more than an hour to read, in only 10 minutes.

Amodei argues that humanity is in a "technological adolescence," facing a rite of passage with powerful AI. He maps five civilizational risks: AI autonomy, biological misuse, totalitarian control, labor displacement, and unpredictable societal shifts.

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"It will not be AI that takes away the job of a technical writer, but rather another technical writer with deep AI skills," said Robbins.

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>> Read the Amodei article: https://tinyurl.com/3baw3pzh

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>> Read the Robbins article "The Global AI Race: America vs. China": https://tinyurl.com/2uckj7wy

>> Read the Robbins article "Understanding AI Hallucinations in Technical Writing": https://tinyurl.com/bdeyd64t

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>> Read the Robbins article "Comparing ChatGPT, Gemini, Copilot, & Grok": https://tinyurl.com/3zwttxhk

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