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Anthropic plans to warn speculative investors in its IPO prospectus that its AI models pose a “catastrophic or existential risk to humanity,” several reports said on Tuesday. Read more: cnb.cx/4dDH8m4

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Ok I’m gonna say the “may destroy humanity” line is ridiculous and shifts focus to the wrong problem set. I don’t think planetary extinction is remotely plausible but unrelenting cyberattacks are guaranteed.

This is beyond parody. A plot point like this is something you’d expect in a bad sci-fi comedy. It’s like the next iteration of the bit when they mock an Rx drugs ever more harmful side-effects in a fake ad.

"We are leveraged to our eyeballs, cosmically in debt, running at an annual loss rate in the tens of billions, and our product poses an existential risk to humanity. That's why we're the perfect addition to your investment portfolio!" Hell of a pitch.