Ben Bernanke Joins Anthropic Oversight Trust

(anthropic.com)

36 points | by Jimmc414 1 hour ago

9 comments

  • visiondude 8 minutes ago
    so 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
  • i_idiot 1 minute ago
    These guys have to produce a hit piece everyday...everyone by now knows that "we are doing this for humanity" is bullshit.
  • eknkc 18 minutes ago
    Someone 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.
    • siren2026 6 minutes ago
      That'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.

    • Avicebron 10 minutes ago
      Dishonesty 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.
  • rekwah 24 minutes ago
    This feels like Theranos loading up their board with big names.
    • mountainriver 11 minutes ago
      Except Anthropic has delivered a truly world changing product…
      • patcon 3 minutes ago
        So did Los Alamos?
      • lostaccount 8 minutes ago
        World changing in a good way?
        • msikora 5 minutes ago
          Yes, absolutely in a good way
          • ponco 1 minute ago
            The benefits of modernity (electricity, cars, iPhone, Claude) are good, but they come bundled with potentially terminal ecological costs which is bad.
  • DesaiAshu 8 minutes ago
    The 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-...

  • Jimmc414 1 hour ago
  • BrenBarn 19 minutes ago
    Whoop de doo. I'm sure there'll be huge earth-shaking changes in their activities now, right?
  • yieldcrv 31 minutes ago
    Is he for loosening or tightening AI safety policy?
    • CGMthrowaway 21 minutes ago
      If 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

      • Iakeman 5 minutes ago
        That's a funny way of saying connections