Anthropic's long-term benefit trust is a governance mechanism that Anthropic claims helps it promote safety over profit.

But this is broadly voluntary. Federal law does not compel us or any other A.I. company to be transparent about our models’ capabilities or to take any meaningful steps toward risk reduction. Some companies can simply choose not to.

Anthropic CEO and researchers have claimed that AI has the potential to wipe out white-collar jobs, particularly entry-level roles.

Humans may be in for a “pretty terrible decade” as AI automates more white-collar work while progress in robotics lags behind, according to Anthropic researchers.

AI's rise could result in a spike in unemployment within one to five years, Dario Amodei, the CEO of Anthropic, warned in an interview.

On the heels of an OpenAI controversy over deleted posts, Reddit sued Anthropic Wednesday, accusing the AI company of "intentionally" training AI models on the "personal data of Reddit users"—including their deleted posts—"without ever requesting their consent."

The AI start-up has been making rapid advances thanks largely to the coding abilities of its family of Claude chatbots.

AI startup Anthropic is siphoning top talent from OpenAI and Google's DeepMind.