Beatrice Nolan here. Anthropic is about to IPO, reportedly at a record breaking $2 trillion. If you’re an employee at the company, especially one that’s been there for some time, you are about to come into a life-changing amount of money.
So quitting, publicly sounding the alarm about the technology you are building, or predicting the death of all humans due to your flagship product, may seem like an unusual move at such a precarious moment. But that’s exactly what a fair few of Anthropic researchers, current and former, have been up to in the last week.
