本·伯南克获任命加入Anthropic长期利益信托

Anthropic的长期利益信托（LTBT）已任命布鲁金斯学会杰出研究员、前美联储主席本·伯南克（Ben Bernanke）博士为其最新成员。他加入了一个独立机构，该机构致力于督促Anthropic履行其使命：负责任地开发先进AI，为人类谋求长期利益。

伯南克于2006年至2014年领导美联储，引导央行度过2008年全球金融危机及随后的复苏。在进入政府之前，他拥有二十多年的学术经济学家生涯，其中大部分时间在普林斯顿大学，曾担任经济系主任，并针对大萧条以及银行在金融危机中的作用积累了丰富的研究成果。这些工作为他在2022年赢得了诺贝尔经济学奖。

“人工智能的潜力巨大，其可能产生的结果范围也很广。这种潜力将如何发展，部分取决于我们围绕它建立的制度，”伯南克博士表示。“Anthropic创建了一种独特的治理结构，力求确保AI对人类的长期收益远超风险。我很荣幸能获得这个机会，并将尽我所能为这一关键使命做出贡献。”

“AI可能会产生现代史上任何技术中最重大的经济影响，Anthropic肩负着双重责任，即理解这些影响并采取行动，”Anthropic联合创始人兼总裁丹妮拉·阿莫德伊（Daniela Amodei）说。“本的职业生涯涵盖了从研究经济如何应对颠覆性时刻到帮助引导世界最大经济体度过这样一段时期。他的判断将使我们更善于预测和应对先进AI如何影响全球的劳动力和经济。”

Anthropic是一家公益性公司，这意味着公司的创建旨在平衡商业成功与创造社会公共利益。LTBT的存在是为了帮助公司负责任地长期保持这种平衡，对Anthropic开发和部署AI的方式进行制衡。受托人因其在广泛领域的专业知识而被选中，并独立于公司管理层和投资者：他们不持有Anthropic股权，不分享其利润，仅因付出时间和履职而获得报酬。新的受托人由现任受托人与公司协商后选出。

“围绕这项技术建立的制度将与其本身同等重要，”LTBT主席尼尔·巴迪·沙阿（Neil Buddy Shah）补充道。“本曾领导美联储八年，凭借其专业知识、独立性和稳健判断，带领国家度过了近一个世纪以来最严重的金融危机。随着AI影响的扩大，这正是我们寻找受托人的标准，我们很幸运本选择加入我们的这项事业。”

LTBT有权任命Anthropic董事会成员。受托人就关键决策向董事会和Anthropic领导层提供建议，尤其是涉及AI潜在风险和社会影响的决策。伯南克的任命为Anthropic最密切关注的问题之一—— AI如何改变经济——带来了专业能力。除了Anthropic的其他工作领域外，他还将为我们的经济研究提供洞见。

伯南克加入LTBT，与尼尔·巴迪·沙阿、理查德·方丹和马里亚诺-弗洛伦蒂诺·奎利亚尔共同任职。他们的集体经验涵盖全球健康、国家安全、法律、政策和经济领域。

Anthropic's Long-Term Benefit Trust (LTBT) has appointed Dr. Ben Bernanke, a Distinguished Fellow at the Brookings Institution and former Chair of the Federal Reserve, as its newest member. He joins an independent body that works to hold Anthropic to its mission: the responsible development of advanced AI for the long-term benefit of humanity.

Bernanke led the Federal Reserve from 2006 to 2014, steering the central bank through the 2008 global financial crisis and the recovery that followed. Before entering government, he spent more than two decades as an academic economist, much of that time at Princeton, where he chaired the economics department and built a body of research on the Great Depression and the role banks play in financial crises. That work earned him the Nobel Prize in Economic Sciences in 2022.

“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,” said Dr. Bernanke. “Anthropic has created a unique governance structure to try to ensure that the long-run benefits of AI for humanity far outweigh the risks. I am honored to have this opportunity, and I will try to contribute in any way I can to this critical mission.”

“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,” said Daniela Amodei, Co-Founder and President of Anthropic. “Ben’s career has run from studying how economies react to disruptive moments to helping steer the world’s largest economy through one such time. His judgment will make us better at anticipating and responding to how advanced AI affects workforces and economies around the world.”

Anthropic is a Public Benefit Corporation, meaning the company was created to balance commercial success with generating social and public good. The LTBT exists to help the company responsibly maintain that balance over the long term, providing a check on how Anthropic develops and deploys AI. The Trustees are chosen for their expertise across a wide range of areas, and are independent of the company’s management and investors: they hold no equity in Anthropic, don’t share in its profits, and are compensated only for their time and service. New Trustees are selected by the existing ones, in consultation with the company.

“The institutions built around this technology will matter as much as the technology itself,” added Neil Buddy Shah, Chair of the LTBT. “Ben spent eight years leading the Federal Reserve and guided the country through the worst financial crisis in nearly a century with expertise, independence, and sound judgment. That's the standard we look for in Trustees as AI's impact grows, and we're fortunate Ben has chosen to join us in this work.”

The LTBT has the authority to appoint members to Anthropic’s board. The Trustees advise the board and Anthropic’s leadership on critical decisions, particularly those involving the potential risks and societal impacts of AI. Bernanke’s appointment brings expertise to one of the questions Anthropic studies most closely: how AI is changing the economy. He will lend his insight to our economic research, in addition to other areas of Anthropic's work.

Bernanke joins Neil Buddy Shah, Richard Fontaine, and Mariano-Florentino Cuéllar on the LTBT. Their collective experience spans global health, national security, law, policy, and economics.