Anthropic on Tuesday announced it has appointed legal and international affairs expert Mariano-Florentino Cuéllar to its Long-Term Benefit Trust, the company's independent governance structure that selects Anthropic's board members and advises leadership.
Cuéllar has served in three U.S. presidential administrations, acted as a Justice of the Supreme Court of California and chairs the board of the William & Flora Hewlett Foundation, according to a release. He is also the president of the Carnegie Endowment for International Peace, but will step down from that position in July to take on leadership roles at Stanford University.
"As AI capabilities advance at an unprecedented pace, the need for governance structures that marry private sector dynamism with civic responsibility has never been more urgent," Cuéllar said in a statement.
In addition to Cuéllar's appointment to the Trust, Anthropic announced Tuesday that two other members, Evidence Action CEO Kanika Bahl and Centre for Effective Altruism CEO Zachary Robinson, have concluded their terms.
Bahl and Robinson had been members of the Trust since it was created, Anthropic said.