Its IPO paperwork reveal a company rightly worried about its regulatory future.

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Anthropic filed paperwork to go public on Monday, and while its list of business risk factors spans the fanciful (sentient AI) and the mundane (losing its executives), one stands above the rest as a likely source of headaches in the near future: the "evolving and uncertain regulatory and political environment." With an expected IPO around mid-November, and new representatives from the midterms elections to be sworn in in January, the company has a scant few months before it's almost guaranteed to incur even more political headaches.

While the current Republican-controlled Congress has not put its political will behind constraining AI companies — either the technology they produce or the resources they consume — Americans of both parties are largely agreed in their opposition to data centers and concern about AI displacing jobs .…