Anthropic announces physicist Christopher Stubbs joins its Long-Term Benefit Trust

Anthropic announced that Christopher Stubbs has joined its Long-Term Benefit Trust. An experimental physicist, Harvard professor of physics and astronomy, and the university’s former dean of science, Stubbs helped discover the accelerating expansion of the universe and has also advised the US government on national security and arms control. He is the body’s first physicist.

The Trust exists to help Anthropic balance commercial growth with its public-benefit purpose. The company says the body can appoint a majority of Anthropic’s board and advise its leadership on critical decisions, particularly those involving AI risks and societal impacts. Stubbs joins chair Neil Buddy Shah, national security expert Richard Fontaine and former Federal Reserve Chair Ben Bernanke; the trustees are independent of the company’s management and investors.