Anthropic向投资者传递的信息是：我们在亏损巨资，我们可能会毁灭所有人，但无论如何还是买我们的股票吧。路透社对该公司IPO招股书的抢先披露包含了一些警告，这与Semafor虚构的风险因素列表相差无几，并且详细说明了该公司计划在计算资源上多花费数千亿美元，远超其预期的收入。这意味着公众投资者将承担迄今为止由Anthropic的风险投资人、供应商和担保人所承担的风险。
Anthropic’s pitch to investors: We’re losing gobs of money, we might kill everyone, buy our stock anyway. Reuters’ peek at the company’s IPO prospectus includes warnings not far off from Semafor’s imaginary list of risk factors, and it details the company’s plans to spend hundreds of billions of dollars more on compute than it expects in revenue. That means public investors will take on the risk so far carried by Anthropic’s venture backers, suppliers, and guarantors.
事情本该如此运作，散户投资者最终当冤大头的可能性，应当与他们错失巨大收益的风险进行权衡（这对进步派政治家来说是个两难选择）。至于该公司关于“人类生存风险”的警告——这一担忧最近得到了教皇的进一步关注——我们要指出的是，Anthropic的401(k)福利的存在，本身就建立在我们大家仍然活着的世界之上。——莉兹·霍夫曼（Liz Hoffman）
That’s how it’s supposed to work, and the chance that retail investors end up holding the bag should be weighed against the risk that they miss out on huge gains. (A pickle for progressive politicians.) As for the company’s warning of “existential risks to humanity” — concerns newly elevated by the pope — we’d note that the existence of Anthropic’s 401(k) benefits assumes a world where we’re all still here. — Liz Hoffman