Landed the cover photo and more for National Geographic Traveller Magazine April 2026 issue. Pick up a copy from today pretty much anywhere in the UK!
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"Selling AI chips to China is like selling nuclear weapons to North Korea."
The Anthropic CEO just went to war with Nvidia at Davos.
And dropped the most terrifying satisfying prediction about AI I've ever heard.
Dario Amodei and Demis Hassabis sat on the same stage for the first time in a year.
The two men building the most powerful AI systems on Earth.
The conversation was called "The Day After AGI."
And it turned into a countdown clock.
Here's what they revealed about our future:
Amodei said we're 6-12 months away from AI doing EVERYTHING software engineers do.
End to end.
Not helping with code.
Not writing snippets.
REPLACING the entire function.
"I have engineers at Anthropic who say I don't write any code anymore. I just let the model write the code."
That's the CEO of a $183 billion company telling you his own engineers are becoming obsolete.
Inside his own building.
Right now.
But that's not even the scary part.
The scary part is the LOOP:
AI writes code โ AI does AI research โ AI builds better AI โ Repeat
Once this closes, human progress becomes irrelevant.
It's exponential compounding with no ceiling.
Amodei's exact words: "If I had to guess, this goes faster than people imagine."
Hassabis didn't disagree.
Two competitors building the same technology.
Same timeline.
Same warning.
On jobs, Amodei said:
"Half of entry-level white-collar jobs could be gone within one to five years."
He's already seeing it internally.
"I can look forward to a time where on the junior end and the intermediate end, we actually need less and not more people."
The CEO of an AI company planning for FEWER employees.
While revenue 10x'd.
Think about that.
Hassabis's advice for students:
"If I was talking to undergrads right now, I would tell them to get unbelievably proficient with these tools."
Translation: Your degree means nothing. Learn to work WITH the machine or get replaced BY it.
Then Amodei went full existential...
He quoted Contact. The 1997 alien movie:
"If you could ask aliens one question, what would it be?"
The answer: "How did you do it? How did you manage to get through this technological adolescence without destroying yourselves?"
That's the frame he uses for AI.
The guy BUILDING AGI is publicly wondering if humanity survives what he's creating.
At Davos.
In front of world leaders.
Then he dropped the Nvidia bomb.
The US just approved chip exports to China.
Amodei's response:
"I think of this more as like selling nuclear weapons to North Korea and bragging 'oh yeah, Boeing made the case.'"
He called it "crazy."
Said there would be "grave consequences."
The man building the technology is telling governments they're making catastrophic mistakes.
But nobody's listening.
When asked why they can't just slow down:
"We have geopolitical adversaries building the same technology at a similar pace. It's very hard to have an enforceable agreement."
So basically we CAN'T stop even if we wanted to.
The race has no brakes.
But it's interesting that both have different timelines when it comes to AGI.
Amodei: AGI by 2026-2027
Hassabis: 50% chance by end of decade
But both also say the self-improvement loop is the only variable that matters
If AI builds AI, everything accelerates beyond control.
If it can't, we get more time.
We're about to find out which reality we're in.
Amodei's final words:
"The biggest thing to watch is AI systems building AI systems. That will determine whether it's a few more years or whether we have wonders and a great emergency in front of us."
Wonders AND emergency.
Same sentence.
From the man running the second-most-advanced AI lab on the planet.
The day after AGI is arriving.
And it feels like the people building it are more terrified than we are.
Nick Fuentes believes that Charlie & Erika Kirk were an Arranged Marriage & they meet at Bohemian Grove ๐คฏ
Nick also has many questions about Erika about how quickly she took over TPUSA & more.
"I don't buy any of the Israel conspiracies, but THIS I'm interested in."
For the ignorant Americans who don't understand what US Aid to Ukraine actually looks like, please read and share this list:
- The vast majority of the military aid we're providing Ukraine comes directly from existing U.S. military stockpiles.
- These weapons aren't brand new; they're mostly older stockpiles that the U.S. military planned to replace anyway.
- The funding approved by Congress actually goes to American companies (like Lockheed Martin, Raytheon, and Boeing) to build new, upgraded weapons for OUR OWN military.
- This helps the American economy:
Supports thousands of American jobs
Strengthens American manufacturing
Ensures our military gets newer, better weapons
- Ukraine gets help against Putin's aggression. From his military's horrific violations against innocent women and children.
- America gets stronger, safer, and better equipped in the process.
One of those clips where you have to make sure you're not hallucinating.
Donald Trump says Palestinians ought not be allowed to return to Gaza because "why would they want to return? That place has been hell" โ next to the grinning man who made it hell
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