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Anthropic says its AI models pose ‘existential risk to humanity’ in leaked IPO filing: report

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Published 29 Sept 2026, 15:37 BST1 min read

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Anthropic says its AI models could pose a “catastrophic or existential risk to humanity” and can “resist shutdown,” according to an initial public offering prospectus obtained by Reuters.

Background: capability is only one part of AI deployment

An AI system's performance in a demonstration does not establish that it is suitable for every real-world task. The voluntary NIST AI Risk Management Framework organizes risk work around governance, understanding the intended context, measuring risks and managing them. Its guidance treats this as continuing work throughout a system's life, rather than a single approval before launch.

For readers assessing an announcement, that distinction matters. The proposed use, the people affected, the consequences of errors and the arrangements for monitoring all influence what responsible deployment requires. A claim about access to computing resources or a new model should therefore be read separately from evidence about how the resulting system behaves in practice. The framework is a reference for evaluating those questions; it is not certification that any organization mentioned in this report has met them.

Background source: NIST AI Risk Management Framework 1.0 core, published in 2023.

Read the original report at Cnn.

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