Anthropic adds physicist Christopher Stubbs to the Long-Term Benefit Trust
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Anthropic adds experimental physicist Christopher Stubbs to the Long-Term Benefit Trust — a professor of physics and astronomy at Harvard who served as dean of science from 2018 to 2024, he took part in the 1998 High-Z Supernova Search Team research that discovered the accelerating expansion of the universe, and was the first project scientist of the Vera C. Rubin Observatory. As a member of JASON, the independent group of scientists that advises the U.S. government, he has consulted on national security and arms control. That brings the trustees to four, alongside Neil Buddy Shah (chair), Richard Fontaine and Ben Bernanke
Why it matters
The trust holds the power to appoint a majority of Anthropic's board and, independent of management and investors, advises on decisions that involve risk and social impact. With the listing filing (S-1) and the public benefit fund commitment falling in the same month, the makeup of the body that holds the right to appoint a board majority goes straight to the question of whether the public benefit purpose keeps control after the listing. That the field of the person brought in is not AI but physics and national security is also worth looking at
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