Anthropic Warns IPO Investors That Advanced AI Could Pose Existential Risks

Anthropic is preparing to tell prospective IPO investors that advanced AI could pose catastrophic or existential risks to humanity, putting the Claude maker's safety claims at the center of a possible public-market debut. The warning turns a long-running AI-safety debate into a securities-market issue: investors are being asked to fund the same frontier systems the company says could become dangerous if mishandled.