Anthropic is donating another $20 million to Public First Action
Anthropic News · 2026-07-21
Anthropic donates an additional $20 million to Public First Action, totaling $40 million, to fund nonpartisan AI policy education and advocate for transparency requirements and enforcement mechanisms for frontier AI developers.
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Topics: ai-policyai-governanceai-safetyanthropicpublic-education
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- Anthropic has now donated a total of $40 million to Public First Action, a nonpartisan AI public education and policy organization.
- Claude Mythos Preview discovered thousands of high-severity software vulnerabilities across every major operating system and browser, and was released only to a limited set of cyber defenders.
- Anthropic characterizes its Advanced AI Framework as the strongest policy proposal from any frontier lab or policymaker to date.
- Anthropic argues transparency alone is insufficient and governments need the ability to verify safety claims, enforce safe practices through civil penalties, and block catastrophically risky AI deployments.
- Anthropic supports tightening export controls on advanced chips and semiconductor manufacturing equipment to preserve democratic AI leadership over authoritarian competitors.
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We need policymakers and candidates to put forward measures that mitigate risks. This is the core of what we've laid out in Anthropic's Advanced AI Framework, which is the strongest policy proposal from any frontier lab or policymaker to date.
In the wrong hands, models like this could threaten the critical systems the country relies on, from hospitals to the energy grid.
America and our democratic allies have the advantage today, but that lead is tenuous.