Humanity As Adolescent Gaining Dangerous Strength

Using Toby Ord's analogy of humanity as a child becoming an adolescent, gaining strength is great up to a point, but eventually you become strong enough to really hurt yourself or not know your own strength; humanity is reaching that point with nuclear weapons, bioweapons, and AI, so the centuries-old push for more power and technology now warrants more caution as we enter a gray zone.