Mark Levine

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Meantime, Anthropic has opened a line of communication with New York City Comptroller Mark Levine after he called for the company to delay its initial public offering.

He's urging Anthropic to pause the listing process until it addresses AI safety and governance concerns, saying a catastrophic safety incident after going public would be terrible for the stock.

The comptroller looks after the city's fiscal health and oversees public pension funds worth more than $325 billion in assets.

Some people are making the opposite point, that if they delay their IPO, then it could, that itself could be a problem for the market, and if there's fro- frothiness, that could be the, the trigger.

I worry about going public and then having an incident.

New York City Comptroller Mark Levine on Bloomberg.

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Anthropic has opened a line of communication with New York City Comptroller Mark Levine after he called for the company to delay its initial public offering.

He's urging Anthropic to pause the listing process until it addresses AI safety and governance concerns, saying a catastrophic safety incident after going public would be terrible for their stock.

The Comptroller looks after the city's fiscal health and oversees public pension funds with more than $325 billion in assets.

Some people are making the opposite point, that if they delay their IPO, then it could, that itself could be a problem for the market, and if there's fro- frothiness, that could be the, the trigger.

I worry about going public and then having an incident.

New York City Comptroller Mark Levine on Bloomberg.

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Anthropic has opened a line of communication with New York City Comptroller Mark Levine after he called for the company to delay its initial public offering.

He's urging Anthropic to pause the listing process until it addresses AI safety and governance concerns, saying a catastrophic safety incident after going public would be terrible for their stock.

The comptroller looks after the city's fiscal health and oversees public pension funds with more than $325 billion in assets.

Some people are making the opposite point, that if they delay their IPO, then it could, that itself could be a problem for the market, and if there's fro- frothiness, that could be the, the trigger.

I worry about going public and then having an incident.

New York City Comptroller Mark Levine on Bloomberg.

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WTI at $97.75. Anthropic has opened a line of communication with New York City Comptroller Mark Levine after he called for the company to delay its initial public offering.

He's urging Anthropic to pause the listing process until it addresses AI safety and governance concerns, saying a catastrophic safety incident after going public would be terrible for their stock.

The comptroller looks after the city's fiscal health and oversees public pension funds with more than $325 billion in assets.

Some people are making the opposite point, that if they delay their IPO, then it could, that itself could be a problem for the market, and if there's fro- frothiness, that could be the, the trigger.

I worry about going public and then having an incident.

New York City Comptroller Mark Levine on Bloomberg.

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Anthropic has opened a line of communication with New York City Comptroller Mark Levine following his letter earlier this week, calling for the artificial intelligence lab to delay its initial public offering.

Levine was a guest on Bloomberg Television.

This is a company building a technology that poses a potential existential threat to humanity.

Those are the words reportedly of the S-1 that they have published.

They also do not claim to have solved that problem, posing risk for investors and, and I am an investor, a shareholder, and will be a bigger one if this goes public.

And that's New York City Comptroller Mark Levine.

Levine's letter, dated on Wednesday, addressed to Anthropic Chief Executive Dario Amodei, urged the company to pause the listing process until it fully and transparently addresses the AI safety and governance concerns it has raised.

I worry about going public and then having an incident.

New York City Comptroller Mark Levine on Bloomberg.

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Oh, 100%.

I mean, the real power lies with figures like New York City Comptroller Mark Levine.

He manages the city's $326 billion in pension funds.

Right.

Of course, Anthropic's IPO is something that the New York City controller, as we told you yesterday, would like to see slowed down.

Mark Levine penned a letter to Dario Amadei, the CEO of Anthropic, suggesting that if they really want to focus on safety concerns, they would pause the IPO process for now.

And he joined my colleagues Jonathan Farrow and Anne-Marie Hordern on Bloomberg Surveillance this morning to talk about it further.

Listen.

Let's get to the most-read letter on Wall Street in the last 24 hours.

The New York City Comptroller, Mark Levine, calling Anthropic to pause its impending IPO over AI safety concerns, writing in a letter addressed to Anthropic CEO Dario Amodei, quote, "Instead of proceeding headlong with its IPO, the company should focus its energies on addressing these unprecedented risks." Mark Levine joins us now for more.

Mark, good morning.

Good to see you.