TechAnthropic’s prospective $2 trillion IPO puts powerful external trustees under scrutiny

Anthropic’s planned blockbuster IPO, which could value the Claude maker at as much as $2 trillion, is drawing attention to its experimental governance model. The Long-Term Benefit Trust, a small group of advisers created to protect the lab’s mission of developing AI for humanity’s long-term benefit, owns no equity but controls most of the board, and Anthropic plans to preserve its role after going public.

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