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Ben Bernanke Joins Anthropic Oversight Trust
- Jimmc414 4mo agohttps://www.bloomberg.com/news/articles/2026-07-09/former-fed-chairman-ben-bernanke-joins-anthropic-oversight-trust?embedded-checkout=true https://www.bloomberg.com/news/articles/2026-07-09/former-fe...
- yieldcrv 4mo agoIs he for loosening or tightening AI safety policy?
- CGMthrowaway 4mo agoIf anything he would be for tightening it, but I suspect his role is less about being a vote one way or the other. The value he brings is in his data, knowledge & analyses - which he surely has from the Fed - on the scope and extent of AI's potential rrisks in capital sustainability, market stability and wage/job displacement
- brikym 4mo ago[flagged]
- rekwah 4mo agoThis feels like Theranos loading up their board with big names.
- mountainriver 4mo agoExcept Anthropic has delivered a truly world changing product…
- lostaccount 4mo agoWorld changing in a good way?
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- msikora 4mo agoYes, absolutely in a good way
- ponco 4mo agoThe benefits of modernity (electricity, cars, iPhone, Claude) are good, but they come bundled with potentially terminal ecological costs which is bad.
- ETH_start 4mo agoThere are certainly ecological costs, but in the long run, Earth's life will only survive if an advanced species like ours is able to transport it off the planet before the sun expands and boils away the ocean and atmosphere, in approximately 800 million years.
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- fragmede 4mo agoFortunately, the rockets for that will be helped along with the GPU capacity to run rocket simulations on. GPUs not being used to run LLMs can be used instead for physics simulations to help make those rockets work.
- BrenBarn 4mo agoWhoop de doo. I'm sure there'll be huge earth-shaking changes in their activities now, right?
- eknkc 4mo agoSomeone here recently said, “Dishonesty is a core value of Anthropic,” and that aligns with my experience of the company as a user. All their talk about AI safety since the company’s inception now feels like pure theater, given their conduct in everyday operations. It’s a shame how quickly their image has deteriorated.
- Avicebron 4mo agoDishonesty is at the core of Effective Altruism, which strangles a lot of the sensible choices Anthropic should be making. Although this feels more like, "anyone with socio-political edge worming their way in to suckle on the feed of imaginary printed money" more than anything.
- colinb 4mo agoCan you provide some context for this? I’m aware of SBF’s EA links, and how empty those sentiments appear to have been, but I’m just some guy, and it isn’t clear to me that the whole idea is dishonest, even if I don’t think it’s terribly realistic.
- siren2026 4mo agoThat's actually exactly how I feel about Anthropic. They play such a PR game, trying really really hard to be seen as the good guys. It feels as another satirical episode of Silicon Valley. It's very clear they are all money and power motivated while also pretending to do all of this for the good of humanity. I have rarely seen that level of hypocrisy and cultish behavior from leadership and employees there. I would honestly just prefer if they were honest about being power and money hungry instead of playing that game of AI Safety.
- SOLAR_FIELDS 4mo agoAt least Sam Altman appeared to drop all pretenses of his pure sociopathy some time ago
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- visiondude 4mo agoso the architect of government bailout gets a cushy gig. probably one of the most harmful precedents set and now companies expect bailouts. to bailout the company instead of people and small shareholders was always poor decision, emboldened the worst of the business class. don’t love this hire lol
- kefabean 4mo agoSo does this appointment signpost a likely industry-wide token squeeze requiring Benanke’s specific domain knowledge to navigate?
- DesaiAshu 4mo agoThe government response to the ‘08 crisis seems to have worked out better for most big banks (low taxing of negative externalities, growing larger and more profitable), than for regional banks (consolidated) and the bulk of Americans (low median wealth, rising costs of housing/living) Given the data on this[1], this is a confusing choice of hire to ensure AI gains are distributed equitably [1] https://economicprinciples.org/Why-and-How-Capitalism-Needs-To-Be-Reformed/ https://economicprinciples.org/Why-and-How-Capitalism-Needs-...
- eru 4mo agoThe having so many tiny regional banks is a holdover from the bad old days when branch banking was largely outlawed.
- pickleglitch 4mo agoWhat gives you the idea that they want to distribute the gains from AI equitably?
- i_idiot 4mo agoThese guys have to produce a hit piece everyday...everyone by now knows that "we are doing this for humanity" is bullshit.
- preisschild 4mo ago> everyone by now knows that "we are doing this for humanity" is bullshit. There are people here in this thread that act like LLMs are the best invention since sliced bread
- brikym 4mo agoJust in case Anthropic are looking for some more members that are a good cultural fit I found this list: > Genie Energy's Strategic advisory board is composed of: Dick Cheney since 2009 (former vice president of the United States),[3] Rupert Murdoch (media mogul and chairman of News Corp), James Woolsey (former CIA director), Larry Summers (former head of the US Treasury), Michael Steinhardt, Jacob Rothschild,[4][5] and Mary Landrieu, former United States Senator from Louisiana.
- j_bum 4mo agoDick Cheney passed away in 2025, just an FYI.
- brikym 4mo agoI'd recommend they substitute him for a well known, uncontroversial figure like Klaus Schwab.
- jules-jules 4mo agoBig fan of Larry Summers here. He seems to be part of everything, Harvard, Epstein, etc.
- sph 4mo agoImagine Rupert Murdoch (95, worth $21.7 billion) arguing the pros and cons of job displacement and widening economic inequality caused by generative AI.
- zxcb1 4mo agoIlluminati
- esikich 4mo agoHe's 72 years old, I'm sure he has the best brains and everyone's best interests in mind. This is exactly what I want to see. I'm sure he will have very good opinions on technology and it's implications.
- colordrops 4mo agoI assume this is sarcasm?
- protocolture 4mo agoBen Bernanke would have figured that out already.
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- brikym 4mo agoGood instinct — this is exactly the kind of issue we should keep an eye on.
- carabiner 4mo agoFair callout.
- RetroTechie 4mo agoThe sarcasm is strong in this thread...
- steve1977 4mo agoBjarne Stroustrup is 75 years old. I don't think that age per se tells us much.
- Balinares 4mo agoWhat's Stroustrup up to these days though?
- whatever1 4mo agoAny idea how one can join a board? Eating donuts and bagels with coffee once a quarter for 200k is my dream job.
- godwinson__4-8 4mo agoAlready be rich. Sorry buddy, as George Carlin said it's a big club, and you ain't in it.
- camillomiller 4mo agoPrepairing another bailout, I see