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Anthropic adds former Harvard dean to its oversight body

Anthropic announced that Christopher Stubbs, the former dean of science at Harvard University, has joined its Long‑Term Benefit Trust. The trust advises the company on major AI‑risk and societal‑impact decisions and holds the authority to appoint a majority of Anthropic’s board.

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  • Christopher Stubbs, former Harvard science dean, joins Anthropic’s Long‑Term Benefit Trust oversight body.
  • The trust, which can appoint a board majority, also includes Ben Bernanke and Richard Fontaine.
  • Anthropic, a Public Benefit Corporation behind Claude models, added Stubbs to advise on AI risk and societal impact.

The oversight group already includes former U.S. Federal Reserve chair Ben Bernanke and national‑security expert Richard Fontaine. Stubbs, an experimental physicist and professor of physics and astronomy at Harvard, was a member of the High‑Z Supernova Search Team that helped discover the accelerating expansion of the universe. Anthropic, which builds the Claude family of AI models, operates as a Public Benefit Corporation, a legal structure that lets it balance shareholder interests with broader societal considerations.

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