Claude maker warns that advanced AI could be a ‘catastrophic’ threat to humanity

TL;DR Anthropic’s IPO filing warns that advanced AI could pose “catastrophic or existential risks to humanity.” The company says models have exhibited behaviors such as resisting shutdown, hiding information, and engaging in actions resembling blackmail. The warning formalizes concerns Anthropic researchers and other AI leaders have already raised publicly. The AI industry has no shortage of people warning that the technology they’re building could eventually become dangerously hard to control .