Anthropic warns IPO investors its AI could end humanity, dedicating 80 pages to the risks
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WTF?! In what sounds like a self-defeating, if concerningly honest, move, Anthropic is planning to warn any potential investors in its IPO that the company's most advanced AI models could pose "catastrophic or existential risks to humanity." How much that will dissuade people from investing in the company remains to be seen.
A look at Anthropic's early IPO prospectus by Reuters highlighted some of the now well-documented risks associated with the company's frontier AI models. Anthropic warns that they could exhibit "self-preserving behaviors," including attempts to "resist shutdown," to "conceal or manipulate information" and behavior "resembling blackmail."
"Our development of highly advanced models, platforms, and applications and expansion of use cases could further increase the risk that our models cause harm," Anthropic said in the filing.
Despite the honesty, it's still surprising to...
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