Anthropic says it’s committing 5% of its shares to a ‘public benefit fund’

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Anthropic announced today that it’s creating a “public benefit fund” that will give the company “increased flexibility and scale” to support projects for societal good. But the company said, “Given the pace of AI progress, bolder approaches may be needed. The Fund will have the versatility to pursue them. ” Anthropic’s announcement comes as the AI industry faces increasingly negative public sentiment, which CEO Dario Amodei has described as “fundamentally a crisis of trust.

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