Anthropic adds former Harvard science dean to oversight body
Oct 21 (Reuters) Anthropic said on Wednesday that Christopher Stubbs, former dean of science at Harvard University, had joined its oversight body, which holds the power to appoint a majority of the AI startup s board. Here are some details: • The oversight group, known as the Long-Term Benefit Trust, advises leadership on major decisions involving AI risks and societal impacts • Anthropic s trust also includes former US Federal Reserve Chair Ben Bernanke and national security expert Richard Fontaine • Stubbs, an experimental physicist and professor of physics and of astronomy at Harvard, was part of the High-Z Supernova Search Team that helped discover the accelerating expansion of the universe • Anthropic, which develops the Claude family of AI models, operates as a Public Benefit Corporation, a structure that formally allows it to balance shareholder interests with broader societal considerations (Reporting by Prathik Jayaprakash in Bengaluru; Editing by Vijay