Will the real Anthropic please stand up

Anthropic has filed a 335-page IPO prospectus that warns its technology could "erode trust, harm society and destabilize the geopolitical order" and pose "catastrophic or existential risks to humanity." The article examines the company's narrative about AI risk and sentience, including Jack Clark's claim that the singularity has begun and Chris Olah's remarks to the Vatican about model "introspection," and asks what Anthropic actually is given tensions between its safety mission and profit motives.