Dario Amodei questions if human systems are ready to handle the ‘almost unimaginable power’ that is ‘potentially imminent’ * Business live – latest updates * Quarter of Britons fear losing jobs to AI in next five years Humanity is entering a phase of artificial intelligence development that will “test who we are as a species”, the boss of leading AI startup Anthropic has said, arguing that the world needs to “wake up” to the risks. Dario Amodei, co-founder and chief executive of the company behind the hit chatbot Claude, voiced his fears in a 19,000-word essay entitled “the adolescence of technology”. Continue reading...

Sarah Douglas says salary requirement means her husband would be ineligible for family visa to join her and their children A British woman whose family cannot return to the UK because of Brexit visa rules has said she feels “forgotten and rejected” by the country of her birth. Sarah Douglas moved to Italy to teach English in 2007 before marrying Matteo Ricci, an Italian software developer, in 2010. Continue reading...

Emergency meeting called over strictness of discipline at Essex schools run by Mossbourne Federation Parents and teachers have voiced alarm about the treatment of children at three Essex schools after they were taken over by a high-profile academy trust…