Country of Geniuses in a Datacenter

A phrase by Dario Amodei cemented in the essay “The Adolescence of Technology” (January 2026), verbatim: *“Imagine, say, 50 million people, all of whom are much more capable than any Nobel Prize winner, statesman, or technologist.”* It defines powerful AI as autonomous and smarter than a Nobel laureate across most domains. The dominant framing in the mainstream.