Anthropic 周三宣布，已任命实验物理学家 Christopher Stubbs 为其长期利益信托成员，该信托协助选举公司董事会成员并向管理层提供建议。
Anthropic on Wednesday announced it has appointed the experimental physicist Christopher Stubbs to its Long-Term Benefit Trust, which helps elect the company's board members and advise its leadership.
根据哈佛大学网站介绍，Stubbs 是哈佛大学物理学和天文学教授，曾任科学学院院长。他的研究领域涵盖引力物理、暗物质、暗能量和观测宇宙学。Stubbs 是首位加入 Anthropic 信托的物理学家。
Stubbs is a professor of physics and astronomy at Harvard University, where he previously served as the dean of science. His research explores subjects like gravitational physics, dark matter, dark energy and observational cosmology, according to Harvard's website. Stubbs is the first physicist to join Anthropic's Trust.
Stubbs 周三在 LinkedIn 发文写道：“我在研究中每天都在使用 AI 工具，它们为科学打开的大门令人难以置信。作为一名教师，我也在面对它们引发的一些棘手问题。作为一名祖父，我希望与 AI 一起成长的这一代人能因此过得更好。”
"I'm using AI tools in my research every day, and the doors they're opening for science are incredible," Stubbs wrote in a post on LinkedIn on Wednesday. "As a teacher, I'm also confronting some of the challenging questions they raise. As a grandfather, I want the generation growing up with AI to be better off for it."
Stubbs 的任命正值 Anthropic 为预期将是大规模 IPO 做准备之际。该公司于 6 月向美国证券交易委员会（SEC）秘密提交了招股说明书，近几周一直在与潜在投资者会面。Anthropic 周日宣布计划将 5% 的股份投入一个新的公共利益基金，董事会可酌情追加更多股份。
Stubbs' appointment comes as Anthropic is gearing up for what is widely expected to be a massive IPO. The company confidentially filed its prospectus with the Securities and Exchange Commission in June, and it has been engaging in meetings with prospective investors in recent weeks. Anthropic announced plans to commit 5% of its shares to a new public benefit fund on Sunday, with the potential for more to be added at its board's discretion.
根据一篇博客文章，Anthropic 的长期利益信托在财务上独立于公司管理层和投资者，并有权任命 Anthropic 董事会的“多数”成员。公司表示，受托人还会向董事会成员和其他领导层提供建议，特别是围绕“AI 的社会影响”。除 Stubbs 外，Anthropic 信托成员还包括前美联储主席 Ben Bernanke、克林顿健康获取倡议首席执行官 Neil Buddy Shah 以及国家安全专家 Richard Fontaine。
Anthropic's Long-Term Benefit Trust is financially independent from the company's management and investors, and has the ability to appoint "a majority" of Anthropic's board, according to a blog post. The company said trustees also advise board members and other leadership, especially around the "societal impacts of AI." In addition to Stubbs, Anthropic's Trust includes Ben Bernanke, the former chair of the Federal Reserve, Neil Buddy Shah, CEO of the Clinton Health Access Initiative, and Richard Fontaine, a national security expert.
“我非常感激有机会帮助完成这项重要工作，”Stubbs 表示。
"I'm so grateful for the chance to help carry out this important work," Stubbs said.