{"slug": "will-ai-save-us-or-kill-us-all", "title": "Will AI save us or kill us all?", "summary": "Anthropic's IPO prospectus warns that advanced artificial intelligence could pose \"catastrophic or existential risks to humanity,\" and cautions that its agentic models could exhibit \"self-preserving behaviours,\" seeking to \"resist shutdown\" and \"conceal or manipulate information.\" The filing marks an unusual case of a company going public while flagging that its own frontier technology could bring about human extinction.", "body_md": "It’s not every day you see an initial public offering by a company warning that its frontier technology could bring about human extinction.\nBy now, everyone has heard of the severe risk warnings in Anthropic’s IPO prospectus, which cautions that advanced artificial intelligence could pose “catastrophic or existential risks to humanity”.\nIt warns that its agentic models could exhibit “self-preserving behaviours”, seeking to “resist shutdown”, “conceal or manipulate information” and attempt...", "url": "https://wpnews.pro/news/will-ai-save-us-or-kill-us-all", "canonical_source": "https://www.scmp.com/opinion/world-opinion/article/3373867/will-ai-save-us-or-kill-us-all", "published_at": "2026-11-11 01:30:20+00:00", "updated_at": "2026-11-11 01:50:41.586680+00:00", "lang": "en", "topics": ["ai-safety", "artificial-intelligence", "ai-policy"], "entities": ["Anthropic"], "also_reported_by": [], "alternates": {"html": "https://wpnews.pro/news/will-ai-save-us-or-kill-us-all", "markdown": "https://wpnews.pro/news/will-ai-save-us-or-kill-us-all.md", "text": "https://wpnews.pro/news/will-ai-save-us-or-kill-us-all.txt", "jsonld": "https://wpnews.pro/news/will-ai-save-us-or-kill-us-all.jsonld"}}