New York City Comptroller Mark Levine is urging Anthropic to pause its planned IPO. His October 14 letter to Dario Amodei asks the company to answer safety and control questions first.
Levine wants details of proposed audits and safeguards, along with an implementation timetable. He also asks how those measures would support Amodei’s call to slow advances in model capabilities.
Levine considers the voluntary White House agreement insufficient. He requests a written response.
Reuters confirmed on October 15 that it had seen the letter. Anthropic had not immediately answered the news agency’s inquiry; no pause in the IPO has been announced.