NYC’s pension watchdog turns Amodei’s “slow down” essay against Anthropic’s $2T IPO

New York City (NYC) Comptroller Mark Levine has asked Anthropic to pause its planned IPO in a letter addressed to Anthropic’s CEO Dario Amodei. Levine wants the company to first address the safety and other unprecedented risks that AI poses before going ahead with the IPO. He pointed to CEO Dario Amodei’s own essay where he urged the AI industry to slow down. The letter lands as the company chases a valuation near $2 trillion. “Proceeding headlong with its IPO” Levine wrote that Anthropic cannot warn the world about AI’s dangers and race to the public markets at the same time.

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