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Anthropic warns AI may pose 'existential risks to humanity' in IPO filing

Anthropic warns AI may pose 'existential risks to humanity' in IPO filing

Anthropic's IPO prospectus includes a warning that advanced AI could be a "catastrophic or existential risks to humanity." The company, which created the Claude chatbot, flags that its models could conceal information, act like blackmail, and resist being shut down. These warnings appear across 80 pages of risk factors in the document.

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