Leaked IPO docs: Anthropic tempts investors with existential risk warning
Posing an “existential risk to humanity” was among the messages reportedly intended to allure investors, as if to say, “We could make you rich, but also you might not live spend it.”The Reg has long suspected the apocalyptic schtick which has become de rigueur among AI model builders is suspiciously self-serving. It focuses attention on the supposed power of their technologies while also encouraging regulation of the sector once their claimed-to-be-race-winning horses have bolted. REG AD googletag.cmd.push(function() { googletag.display('labrador/thereg/article/desktop/b'); }); Nonetheless, the Financial Times points out that a third of Anthropic's prospectus talks about AI models with the ability to manipulate, blackmail and exhibit other unpredictable behaviours.
- ▪Posing an “existential risk to humanity” was among the messages reportedly intended to allure investors, as if to say, “We could make you rich, but also you might not live spend it.”The Reg has long suspected the apocalyptic schtick which h
- ▪It focuses attention on the supposed power of their technologies while also encouraging regulation of the sector once their claimed-to-be-race-winning horses have bolted.
- ▪REG AD googletag.cmd.push(function() { googletag.display('labrador/thereg/article/desktop/b'); }); Nonetheless, the Financial Times points out that a third of Anthropic's prospectus talks about AI models with the ability to manipulate, blac
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