On October 26, Anthropic, the company behind Claude, filed paperwork for what could become one of the largest initial public offerings (IPOs) in history. However, just weeks earlier, CEO of Anthropic Dario Amodei called for companies to slow down AI development to improve safety testing. If Anthropic believes AI is advancing too quickly, why is it pursuing billions of dollars in investment to accelerate its own growth?
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AI development is moving at full speed, but some of the people leading the race are starting to wonder whether it is moving too fast. Anthropic CEO Dario Amodei recently called for companies to slow down development of their most powerful AI models to leave room for safety testing and outside oversight, and he’s found unlikely allies in several competitors. A new voluntary safety agreement between President Trump and major AI companies brings that debate into government policy. But it leaves a difficult question: can the companies competing to lead the industry also be trusted to decide when to slow down?
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