In preparation for what could be the biggest initial public offering of stock ever, Anthropic has finally filed its long-awaited prospectus with the Securities and Exchange Commission. That includes a summary of all the potential risks to Anthropic’s business, including both outside factors and threats from the AI company’s technology itself. Even keeping things concise, Anthropic’s list of risk factors came out to a whopping 97 pages long.

If nearly 100 pages of risks sounds like a lot, that’s because it is. Other recent AI companies to go public, including Roze AI, SpaceX, and QumulusAI, had risk disclosures just 21 pages long, 37 pages long, and 42 pages long, respectively.

Per the Code of Federal Regulations, if a business’s disclosure of risks exceeds 15 pages, it must include a bulleted list summarizing the main factors that make an investment in the company risky. Anthropic’s summary includes 18 bullet points, ranging from their own agents going rogue to the possibility of political turmoil.

Anthropic warns that its most advanced models have the potential to be abused by malicious actors (and already have been in the past). The company theorizes harmful uses for its AI models ranging in severity from “generating fraudulent or misleading content” to “perpetrating acts of violence” and developing “chemical, biological, or other dangerous weapons.”

Though Anthropic notes that it has “technical safeguards” in place to avoid misuse, it admits that “such safeguards are incomplete, may be outdated in light of evolving threat models, have been and may in the future again be circumvented, or may fail to operate as intended.”

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