Anthropic’s Claude Risk Report

By Charles Richard Walker (C. Rich)

No prior civilization faced its moment of late-stage complexity with anything like artificial intelligence in the picture. That fact alone makes historical analogy necessary but insufficient. The Maya, the Eastern Roman Empire, the Assyrians, and Egypt’s Old Kingdom all hardened into administrative density, elite mediation, demographic thinning, and adaptive brittleness, but they did so without a second intelligence capable of observing, modeling, and intervening in those processes at scale. They collapsed blind. We are not blind.

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C. Rich