Long-Term Benefit Trust
Anthropic's governance structure that selects board members and advises leadership, designed to ensure the company prioritizes its public benefit mission over purely commercial interests.
Anthropic's Long-Term Benefit Trust (LTBT) is a governance body created to help the AI safety company maintain its public benefit mission. The Trust's official powers include selecting members of Anthropic's board of directors and advising company leadership. Unlike a traditional nonprofit board, the Trust's precise authorities and the mechanics of trustee selection remain unpublished, raising questions about its actual power to override commercial decisions.
Also known as
LTBT, Anthropic Trust, Benefit Trust