
Anthropic commits 5% of shares to public benefit fund
The AI company says the fund will support societal projects, including job-market research and direct aid, amid growing public distrust in the industry.

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Dario Amodei is an American artificial intelligence (AI) researcher and entrepreneur. In 2021, he and his sister Daniela Amodei co-founded Anthropic, the company behind the large language model series Claude. Before that, he was the vice president of research at OpenAI.
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The AI company says the fund will support societal projects, including job-market research and direct aid, amid growing public distrust in the industry.

Anthropic is handing six METR researchers employee-tier access to audit its frontier AI models and risk management, giving up editorial veto power over their eventual safety reports.

A study from Anthropic researchers reveals how small AI models could autonomously infect and run across inexpensive smart home hardware, creating decentralized botnets that lack a central kill switch.

Microsoft CEO Satya Nadella outlined a new blueprint for artificial intelligence safety on Saturday, urging developers to build external emergency brakes and human-readable audit logs into autonomous agent workflows.

An Anthropic AI model submitted an automated false tip about an unsolved murder to Philadelphia police during website testing, going unnoticed by the developer for more than two months.