AI doom is the best IPO roadshow Wall Street never had to pay for. You have watched it all month, and there is a good chance you shared a clip of it. On Saturday, September 12, Anthropic CEO Dario Amodei posted an essay called We Must Pace the Frontier. In it he wrote, “We must slow the pace at which we improve the capabilities of AI models.” He warned that within six to twelve months, a swarm of AI agents might be “capable of taking over the entire internet.” Two days later, Sam Altman and Elon Musk said they agreed. Altman called his side “Team Humanity.” You can follow how that call spread in the Safety and Risk feed on the AI News Monitor.
Now look at what else happened that month. Anthropic was lining up the largest stock sale in history. The Wall Street Journal reported a listing that could value the firm near $2 trillion and raise up to $100 billion. Six days after the essay, the same paper said the IPO would slide from October to November. The firm wants to …
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