On Anthropic’s S-1

Corrie Driebusch and Kate Clark, writing for The Wall Street Journal: Anthropic has officially started the clock on what could be the biggest initial public offering ever. The maker of Claude unveiled its IPO paperwork Monday morning, putting it on track to go public as soon as the week before Thanksgiving. The 400-page prospectus offered a mix of promise and peril. Artificial intelligence, it said, could usher in a new era of progress, transforming how people code, conduct research, build financial models and automate routine tasks, and even help cure major diseases like cancer. At the same time, AI could lead to the development of new bioweapons, “destabilize the geopolitical order” and evolve beyond the ability of “humans to understand and control.” It’s not a good start to your IPO when you position your company’s technology as destabilizing geopolitics and overthrowing humanity, but that has always been what Anthropic has been about. I’ve spent a lot of time over the last few…

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