Anthropic appoints former Fed Chair Ben Bernanke to its independent trust
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Anthropic has appointed Ben Bernanke, the former chair of the Federal Reserve, to its Long-Term Benefit Trust, an independent governance structure that advises the company and appoints its board members. Bernanke will help Anthropic understand how AI is changing the economy as part of the company's effort to ensure that the long-term benefits of AI outweigh its risks. He joins three other trustees who were selected to provide independent oversight of the AI company's decisions.
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Original source: https://www.cnbc.com/2026/07/09/anthropic-fed-chair-bernanke-independent-trust.html
First tracked: July 9, 2026 at 02:00 PM
Classified by LLM (prompt v3) · confidence: 85%