Ben Bernanke appointed to Anthropic’s Long-Term Benefit Trust
Anthropic News · 2026-07-09
Anthropic's Long-Term Benefit Trust appoints Nobel laureate and former Federal Reserve Chair Ben Bernanke as an independent trustee to advise on AI's economic and societal impacts.
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Topics: ai-governanceanthropiceconomic-impact-of-aiinstitutional-oversight
Claims
- Ben Bernanke, former Federal Reserve Chair and 2022 Nobel laureate in Economics, has joined Anthropic's Long-Term Benefit Trust as its newest member.
- LTBT trustees hold no equity in Anthropic, do not share in profits, and are compensated only for their time and service.
- The LTBT has authority to appoint members to Anthropic's board and advises leadership on risks and societal impacts.
- Bernanke will contribute specifically to Anthropic's economic research on how AI affects workforces and economies.
Key quotes
The potential of artificial intelligence is enormous, and so is the range of outcomes. How that potential plays out will depend, in part, on the institutions we build around it.
AI may have the most significant economic effects of any technology in modern history, and Anthropic has a dual responsibility to understand those effects and to act on them.
The institutions built around this technology will matter as much as the technology itself.