Days after filing confidentially to go public, Anthropic, the $965 billion artificial intelligence juggernaut, suggested in a blog post that the world might benefit from a slowdown in AI development if global peers agreed and enforcement mechanisms could be set up, to help societies deal with the “immense implications” of AI. Co-founder Jack Clark, who heads Anthropic’s public benefit work, said in an interview, “We say this stuff because we think the world needs to know the truth about what’s happening.” Dizzying amounts of money are pouring into AI, and the boom in AI capital spending accounts for a large and rising share of economic growth. This week’s record SpaceX IPO made Elon Musk the world’s first trillionaire. However, much of the global public sees a threat to automate millions of jobs, an unstoppable buildout of resource-intensive data centers pushing up power bills, and a disconnect between big financial winners and those struggling. Canada’s AI minister Evan Solomon noted, “The pom-pom crowd has a strong case that AI is going to be very beneficial,” while “The pitchforks crowd also has a case of concern.” Among Americans, AI is now less popular than the immigration enforcement agency ICE, according to a recent NBC survey.