United Kingdom, Jan. 28 -- Anthropic chief executive Dario Amodei has warned humanity needs to "wake up" to the risks AI could pose to society.

In a lengthy essay titled The Adolescence of Technology, Amodei said the world is entering a phase of AI development that will "test who we are as a species", with social and political institutions potentially unprepared for the power that advanced models could soon wield.

He warned that AI systems capable of acting autonomously and outperforming humans across multiple disciplines may be only one to two years away.

He wrote: "Humanity is about to be handed almost unimaginable power, and it is deeply unclear whether our social, political, and technological systems possess the maturity to wield i...