One day after announcing new AI models designed for US National Security Applications Anthropic has appointed National Safety Expert, Richard Fontaine, in his long -term profit confidence.
Long -term anthropic benefits confidence is a governing mechanism that anthropic claims helps to promote security for profits and has the power to choose some of the company’s directors of administration. Other confidence members include the CEO of Center for Effective Altruism, Zachary Robinson, the CEO of Clinton’s Health Access Initiative, Neil Buddy Shah, and the President of the Test action, Kanika Bahl.
In a statement, CEO Anthropic, Dario Amodi, said that Fontaine’s hiring “(will strengthen) the ability to confidence anthropic guide through complex decisions” on the AI in relation to security.
“Richard’s experience comes at a critical moment, as AI’s advanced capabilities are increasingly interspersed with national security considerations,” Amodei continued. “For some time now I have believed that ensuring that democratic nations maintain leadership in the development of responsible AI is essential for both global security and the common good.”
Fontaine, who will not have a financial participation in Anthropic as a trustee, previously served as a foreign policy advisor to the missing senator John McCain and was an assistant professor at Georgetown Teaching Security Studies. For more than six years, he led the center for a new North -American security, a National Security Think based in Washington, DC, as President.
Anthropic has pledged more and more National Safety customers in the United States as it seeks new sources of income. In NovemberThe company joined with Palantir and Aws, the Cloud Computing Division of Anthropic’s main partner and investor, Amazon, to sell the Anthropic AI to Defense clients.
To be clear, Anthropic is not the only important AI laboratory after defense contracts. Openai is search To establish a closer relationship with the United States Department of Defense and Meta revealed That he is doing it Flame Models available for defense members. Meanwhile Google is refine a version of his Gemini Ai capable of working in classified environments and CoherteIt builds mainly products for companies, also collaborates with Palantir to deploy its AI models.
Fontaine’s hiring reaches anthropic beef in his executive ranks. In May, the company appointed the co -founder of Netflix Reed Hastings on its advice.
