Anthropic’s IPO highlights its choice to place trust, predictability and accountability at the core of its business model, particularly with major clients such as banks, insurers and pharmaceutical companies. The company notably published the first Responsible Scaling Policy in 2023, trains its model on a published constitution and prohibits uses such as mass surveillance, but it remains insufficiently transparent about monitoring and reporting failures. Anthropic plans to spend at least $1 billion over five years on external evaluators, including Accenture, while retaining certain rights to control their conclusions. The author argues that the company must establish a third-party-verifiable record now to answer investors’ questions about incidents, when they were known and when they were discovered.
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