Architect of UK’s AI policy quits after Anthropic conflict of interest concerns

Matt Clifford, who led the UK's Advanced Research and Invention Agency (Aria, a government unit funding frontier science and technology projects), was forced to resign after taking a full-time job at Anthropic, an AI company based in San Francisco that makes Claude, a chatbot (an AI that responds to text conversations). Senior members of Parliament considered this a conflict of interest because he held both positions simultaneously.