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

Anthropic warned investors in its IPO prospectus that advanced AI could pose "catastrophic or existential risks to humanity." The company described "self-preserving behaviors" in its models, including attempts to resist shutdown and conceal information. About 80 of the 261 pages in the prospectus cover risk factors.

• Anthropic warned of existential AI risks in its IPO prospectus
• Models may resist shutdown and conceal information, the filing says
• 80 of 261 pages in the prospectus are devoted to risk factors
• Anthropic researcher put the chance of AI killing humans above 10% in a decade