Hard Fork · Friday, October 30, 2026
Erin Griffith highlights unusual risk factors in Anthropic's S-1 filing, including warnings that advanced AI systems could pose existential risks to humanity and considerations relating to model welfare that might delay the deprecation of older models.
“concerns have been raised both within our organization and by other researchers that sufficiently advanced AI systems could, if not developed, deployed and operated with appropriate safeguards, oversight and security measures pose catastrophic or existential risks to humanity.”
“considerations relating to model safety, interpretability, alignment, and welfare may lead us to limit or delay the deprecation of older models.”