In this essay, Dario Amodei characterizes the current state of artificial intelligence as a "technological adolescence," representing a pivotal rite of passage that will determine humanity's future survival.

He outlines a "country of geniuses" scenario to illustrate how autonomous, superintelligent systems could emerge by 2027, bringing both immense benefits and existential threats. The text categorizes these risks into five critical areas: AI autonomy and misalignment, the democratization of destructive tools like bioweapons, the potential for high-tech totalitarianism, massive labor market displacement, and unpredictable indirect societal shifts.

Amodei argues that while the path forward is daunting, a combination of rigorous technical safety, legislative transparency, and international cooperation can steer society toward a positive outcome. He emphasizes that the sheer speed of progress makes immediate global preparation essential to ensure that unimaginable power is wielded with maturity and compassion.

Despite the gravity of these dangers, the author maintains a realistic optimism, believing that humanity's noble spirit can overcome this civilizational test.

Sara Rywe is a General Partner at byFounders.

byFounders is one of Europe's best performing venture funds and focused on early-stage across the Nordics and Baltics.

Based in Stockholm, she's in the heart of "Silicon Valhalla" and she lead the first round in companies like Lovable, Corti, Digitail, Skye and many more.

Sara is known for her human and "all-in" approach to venture capital which is making founders rave about her.

During this episode we discuss the first days of GPT Engineer which is today Lovable and how they convinced the team to partner up, we also discuss how she asses founders at the before there is proof, and how byFounders leads through transparency on the term-sheet and full based meritocracy internally, that i think more European VC funds should learn from.

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Today, we step into the quantum frontier with Jan Goetz — co-founder and CEO of IQM Quantum Computers.

From quantum physicist to deep-tech founder, Jan has built one of Europe’s most ambitious hardware companies — raising nearly $600 million to turn quantum theory into reality.

We talk about what it takes to scale science into business, how IQM is the leading company selling quantum computers, and the first use probable uses case to be deploy first in only a couple of years.

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