Anthropic’s IPO pitch embraces AI’s promise and peril

Anthropic is planning what could be the largest initial public offering in history. But if AI continues on its current trajectory, humans may not be around much longer to enjoy it.

That and other paradoxes flow through the roughly 300-page initial public offering prospectus of the San Francisco AI leader, viewed this week by Reuters.

To pull off a successful offering that values it at $2 trillion, Anthropic, whose name means “human-centered,” will need plenty of mortal investors to help build a world where mankind will soon take a back seat to far more capable artificial intelligence systems.