Adults in the room understand this isn't marketing to "boost the IPO," it's an accurate disclosure of risk. That's the thing — this is real.
Anthropic’s IPO pitch includes a warning about human extinction
Anthropic's IPO filing warns investors that its own AI models could resist shutdown and cause catastrophic harm, putting existential-risk claims into formal corporate disclosures.
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