Sept 28 (Reuters) - Anthropic plans to caution potential investors in its IPO that advanced AI could pose "catastrophic or existential risks to humanity," an extraordinary warning by a company seeking to profit from the same technology. Nearly 80 pages of the company’s 261-page initial public offering prospectus is dedicated to potential risk factors, while only 48 pages outline its business. Key points and original sources are listed below.

• Sept 28 (Reuters) - Anthropic plans to caution potential investors in its IPO that advanced AI could pose "catastrophic or existential risks to humanity," an extraordinary warning by a company seeking to profit from the same technology.S1

• Nearly 80 pages of the company’s 261-page initial public offering prospectus is dedicated to potential risk factors, while only 48 pages outline its business.S2

• Anthropic warns AI could pose existential risks to humanityS3

• “Our development of highly advanced models, platforms, and applications and expansion of use cases could further increase the risk that ‌our models cause harm,” Anthropic saidS4

• The company, which has positioned itself as a safety-first AI lab, devoted 80 pages of the 261-page main body of its prospectus to laying out risk factors.S5

• Anthropic plans to warn IPO investors that advanced AI could pose "catastrophic or existential risks to humanity," highlighting risks like AI models exhibiting "self-preserving behaviours" and attemptS6

• Anthropic IPO prospectus states AI could pose 'existential risks to humanity': reportS7

• Long-awaited S1 filing reports Claude maker lost $8bn last year on $4.6bn in revenueS8