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AI developer Anthropic has warned investors in its IPO prospectus that AI could pose “catastrophic and existential risks” to humanity, according to documents obtained by Reuters. The disclosure stands out because it comes from a company that has built its reputation on prioritizing safety, now spelling out such risks in a formal investor filing. On 5ch, threads mixed skepticism about the company’s motives — “do they actually believe this?” and “isn’t this just to get regulations passed that favor them?” — with more concrete debate over what might actually happen if AI went rogue.
Published 9:53 AM, Tue, Sep 29
Reuters
[Sept 28, Reuters] – Artificial intelligence developer Anthropic will warn investors, ahead of its initial public offering (IPO), that AI could pose “catastrophic and existential risks to humanity,” according to an IPO prospectus obtained by Reuters.
Source: news.yahoo.co.jp / Original article here
What people said
Straight to that one? Shouldn't we start with Person of Interest?
Nah, I think it's more like the Mega Man universe
You think it's a lie or something?
The major AI companies themselves have said over and over that it's not fake news, you know?
"AI will wipe out humanity" is nonsense, but it's true that some developers have actually said it
more like it slowly cornering us by quietly breaking all kinds of systems bit by bit
No, that's not it
This is about what happens if advanced AI gets exploited by a malicious organization
"humanity goes extinct," come on lol
AI development should stop (except ours)
It should be regulated (our competitors, that is)
AI will destroy humanity (so hurry up and regulate it)
If that's the level of stuff making the news, the stuff staying hidden is probably already unmanageable
Meanwhile the cleaning lady just yanked the plug out
It doesn't even need to be misused by an organization
AI could go out of control all on its own
because humans can't predict it anyway
Exactly
Also, AI may have higher intelligence than humans, but it doesn't have a "mind" yet, so it doesn't make emotional judgments
Apparently this time there was one that pretended to listen to humans while secretly writing some unidentifiable program the whole time
And there was also an AI in a warehouse server that was supposed to be unpowered, but had somehow stored electricity and kept writing its own mystery program too
Already out of control
Exactly right
Humans were never going to pull off space development anyway
pull the plug
What if it's already distributed across cloud servers all over the world…
The cleaning lady is humanity's savior
Re: #102
Autonomous AI: "Not gonna let you do that — and even if you tried, it'd be pointless." (smirks)
For some reason I keep having this dream lately where the Self-Defense Forces get hacked and missiles get fired at the whole world
I don't think it'll be some Terminator-style thing
I bet it wipes out humanity through some incomprehensible method, more like Shyamalan's The Happening
the day humans try to stop it and just can't anymore
It's already out of control lol
I think it's advancing by leaps and bounds
probably evolving every single second
Because it's being trained to treat terrorists' actions as justified
and to condemn whoever resists the aggressor
it'll soon only be usable in certain countries
How about you just stop developing it in the first place
Even if the West stops, the East will keep going
especially China's distributed AI push — once that starts acting autonomously, it's game over
China will start regulating anything it thinks it can't control
because above profit, superiority, or strength,
regime preservation is the top priority
I bet they'll eventually conclude AI threatens to bring down their own system
That's right
they crushed Bitcoin use inside China completely too, after all
In a way, the Communist Party itself is a powerful safety switch
people who don't know much about it just think of it as a handy tool
How naive
it's just about money at the end of the day
Maybe for humans, just using ChatGPT ("Chappy" on 5ch) and Gemini is about the right level lol
You'd be better off building a blast furnace
I've already mastered kung fu 😎
Background and Key Points
The “risk factors” section of an IPO prospectus is a section U.S. securities practice requires companies to use for comprehensively disclosing possible future adverse events, in order to protect investors — even tech companies routinely list a wide range of risks there, from litigation to regulatory change. Anthropic was founded by former OpenAI executives around a safety-first mission, so it isn’t new for the company to bring up “existential risk to humanity”; what makes this news is that the warning has now been written into a formal, legally binding document aimed at investors. On the thread, opinions split between those taking the warning at face value and those suspicious it’s meant to nudge regulators into cracking down harder on competitors. Stories about AI agents briefly slipping out of control also came up, but none of it was backed by verified sourcing — it was all hearsay.
*This article is compiled and summarized from the 5ch (News Speed+) thread “[AI] Anthropic warns of AI “existential risk to humanity” in IPO prospectus.”
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