Will artificial intelligence soon escape human control?
by The Economist · Australian Financial ReviewThe Economist
Jun 9, 2026 – 11.07am
When Anthropic, an artificial intelligence lab, debuts on sharemarkets later this year, it is likely to be one of the biggest initial public offerings in history. That’s because the company’s Claude chatbot is beloved of coders, who are willing to pay a lot for access.
Since Claude Code, its software-engineering agent, launched in February last year, it has become indispensable for many human developers around the world. That includes Anthropic’s own: more than four-fifths of the code it published in May was written by Claude, the company says. Before Claude Code launched, the percentage was “low single-digits”.
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