The AI CEO's Favorite Book Predicted His Own Crisis

ptorrone writes: Anthropic CEO Dario Amodei has been recommending Richard Rhodes's "The Making of the Atomic Bomb" to employees for years. Copies sit on coffee tables at Anthropic HQ. The book documents what happened every time Manhattan Project scientists tried to set conditions on how their work was used: Szilard was threatened with internment, Bohr was told he was near "mortal crimes," Oppenheimer learned to stop organizing or lose access. Last week the Pentagon designated Anthropic a supply chain risk for refusing to remove guardrails on autonomous weapons and mass surveillance. OpenAI signed the same contract hours later with the same red lines, just worded differently. Rhodes already told us how this goes. Adafruit has the full review.