From the new book “The God Test: Artificial Intelligence and Our Coming Cosmic Reckoning” by Robert Wright.
Maybe someday they’ll say that construction of the scaffolding that doomed humanity began in November of 2024. That’s when Anthropic unveiled a technical standard called the Model Context Protocol, or MCP. Until then, Anthropic explained, potentially powerful AI assistants had been “constrained by their isolation from data — trapped behind information silos.” But the MCP standard, if widely adopted, would liberate these agents, letting them explore a much wider range of resources, and so give them power.
