In a significant development, weeks after Dario Amodei, CEO of Anthropic warned about the risks of developing the technology at a rapid pace, the Anthropic has
cautioned investors in its IPO filing and stated that advanced AI could be "catastrophic or pose existential risks to humanity." Therefore, experts believe Anthropic’s IPO filing has put the spotlight on both the extraordinary potential and risks of advanced artificial intelligence. The filing outlines scenarios where AI systems could resist shutdown or use sensitive information to influence humans, even as Anthropic targets a valuation of over $2 trillion. Anthropic's IPO prospectus also reflects potential risks associated with its AI models, including the possibility of "self-preserving behaviours." The company said these could involve attempts to "resist shutdown, conceal or manipulate information" and behaviour "resembling blackmail." As reported by Reuters, Anthropic is making a massive bet that AI will transform the global economy more profoundly than industrialisation, electricity and the internet, according to its IPO prospectus seen by Reuters. However the cost to get there will be staggering. Anthropic reported a net loss of $42 billion in 2025, and plans to spend $518 billion on cloud, computing and infrastructure obligations in coming years, according to the prospectus. The prospectus shows how the company has grown sharply in the last year despite posting wider losses. Revenue grew 12-fold in 2025 to nearly $4.6 billion, even as the company lost more than $8 billion on an operating basis, excluding writedowns of various liabilities mostly tied to previous fundraising, according to the documents, reported and accessed by Reuters. The public sale, which could value it at more than $2 trillion, would capitalise on the rapid rise of the AI startup lab that only came into existence five years ago, and establish it as a benchmark for how Wall Street values AI's leading companies, including rival OpenAI.
