Anthropic puts end-times prophecy in its IPO risk disclosures, and one VC calls it performance art
StewartalsopIII · x · 2026-11-11
Stewart Alsop III mocks Anthropic for adding end-times-style existential risk language to the potential-risks section of its IPO filing — meaning the company could theoretically be sued if doomsday actually arrives. He frames it as the latest chapter in a 2,000-year tradition of secular revelation, joking that the scientism milieu controlling San Francisco has joined Catholics and Protestants in proclaiming the apocalypse is near, and applauds it as performance art.
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