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Anthropic’s newly unveiled IPO prospectus warns that its technology poses an “existential risk to humanity,” after a summer of hacking incidents where rogue agents broke containment and hacked business and government systems.

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The prospectus’ language echoes some dire warnings that recently came from industry insiders. This month, Jacob Coxon quit his position as AI researcher at Anthropic with a post on X denouncing an existential risk AI poses to humanity. www.wired.com/story/anthro...

wired.comThe AI Researcher Who Just Quit Anthropic Says It’s ‘Crunch Time for Humanity’Jacob Coxon talks to WIRED about the “mini Manhattan project” inside Anthropic, the problem with alignment, and why AI labs have just a few years left to make their systems safe.
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However, some see the doom talk as a distraction from discussions of the technology’s actual harms. Timnit Gebru, one of the fiercest critics of AI, told WIRED believes the doom talk is about founders making money, not saving humanity. www.wired.com/story/the-bi...

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Carol
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They are in a race for money and power, trying to annihilate the competition along the way. First, any startups not funded by the Mag7, and eventually each other.