Anthropic appoints a national security expert to its governing trust
A day after announcing new AI models that were designed for American national security applications, Anthropic has appointed An expert in the field of national security, Richard Fontaine, for his long -term advantage.
Anthropic’s long -term benefit confidence is a board mechanism that helps anthropic claims to promote safety over profit, and that has the authority to choose part of the company’s board. The other members of the Trust include Center for Effective Altruisma CEO Zachary Robinson, CEO of Clinton Health Access Initiative Neil Buddy Shah and Evidence Action President Kanika Bahl.
In a statement, anthropic CEO Dario Amodei said that the recruitment of Fontaine will be “[strengthen] The capacity of the trust to guide anthropic through complex decisions’ about AI with regard to security.
“Richard’s expertise comes in a critical time because advanced AI possibilities are increasingly crossing with considerations of national security,” Amodei continued. “I have long believed that guaranteeing democratic countries retains leadership in the responsible AI development is essential for both global safety and the public interest.”
Fontaine, who will not have a financial interest in anthropic as a Trustee, previously served as a foreign policy on the late Senator John McCain and was a deputy professor of Georgetown’s Teaching Security Studies. For more than six years he led the center for a new American safety, a think tank in national security based in Washington, DC, as president.
Anthropic has increasingly involved American national security customers, because it is looking for new sources of income. In November, the company collaborated with Palantir and AWS, the Cloud Computing Division of the big partner and investor of Anthropic, Amazon, to sell Anthropic’s AI to defense customers.
To be clear, anthropic is not the only top AI Lab that goes after defense contracts. OpenAi is in search of To create a closer relationship with the US Department of Defense, and Meta recently revealed that it makes its LLA models available for defense partners. Meanwhile, Google is refining A version of his Gemini AI can work in classified environments, and Cochere, which mainly builds AI products for companies, also works together with Palantir to use its AI models.
Fontaine’s recruitment comes as anthropic runs its executive ranks. In May Hastings, co-founder of Netflix Reed Hastings, in May.
