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