Donald Trump’s tech guru has called for AI giant Anthropic to be investigated amid explosive warnings about the safety of the technology.
David Sacks, chair of the President’s Council of Advisors on Science and Technology, called for the company’s planned IPO to be paused until claims made by a whistleblower can be probed.
Researcher Jacob Coxon sensationally resigned from Anthropic this week and accused the company and its rival OpenAI of not doing enough to address the potential dangers of the technology.
n posts on X, Coxon warned that the companies were ‘racing straight to self-improving superintelligence and gambling with our lives’ and said researchers working in the field believe AI could potentially ‘kill all humans’ by the end of the decade.
He has also described AI as potentially ‘the most dangerous technology that humanity has ever created,’ warning that the race to develop increasingly capable systems could outpace efforts to make them safe.
It comes as investors prepare for what could become one of the biggest stock-market listings in history, with Anthropic reportedly targeting a valuation of around $2 trillion or more when it goes public, potentially as soon as October.
That figure would be more than double Anthropic’s latest private valuation of about $965 billion, making the IPO an important test of whether investors are still willing to pour money into the AI boom at sky-high prices.
Sacks, a prominent Silicon Valley investor, wrote on X on Tuesday: ‘Surely Anthropic’s IPO must be paused until the claims of this ‘whistleblower’ can be investigated.’