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Anthropic has added experimental physicist Christopher Stubbs to its Long-Term Benefit Trust, the body that can appoint a majority of the company's board.
- Stubbs is the Samuel C.
- Moncher Professor of Physics and of Astronomy at Harvard, where he was Dean of Science from 2018 to 2024, and he becomes the Trust's first physicist.
- He helped discover the accelerating expansion of the universe in 1998 as a member of the High-Z Supernova Search Team, work that later earned the team the Breakthrough Prize in Fundamental Physics.
- He was also the inaugural project scientist for what is now the Vera C.
- Rubin Observatory, which began a 10-year survey of the southern sky in June.
- Stubbs has written about keeping AI-assisted research reproducible when models give different answers to the same question, and he is a member of JASON, which has advised the US government on defense and technology since 1960.
- He joins chair Neil Buddy Shah, national security expert Richard Fontaine and former Federal Reserve Chair Ben Bernanke; trustees are independent of Anthropic's management and investors.
