Anthropic’s New Institute Chief of Staff Will Probe AI’s Impact
Anthropic hires Charles Yang as Institute Chief of Staff to study AI's economic and societal impacts amid rapid growth and IPO plans.Summary
Anthropic has appointed Charles Yang as chief of staff for the Anthropic Institute, tasked with researching the economic, societal, and governance effects of frontier AI. Yang, who previously served as an AI policy advisor at the U.S. Department of Energy and an AI for Science Fellow at Renaissance Philanthropy, will work with Jack Clark and institute teams on economics, rule of law, societal impacts, and frontier red-teaming. He aims to surface important data from inside Anthropic about frontier AI developments. This hire comes amid a broader recruitment surge, including Robert Mahari as head of Claude for Legal, former OpenAI co-founder Andrej Karpathy, and cybersecurity expert Chris Rohlf for the frontier red team. Anthropic is reportedly preparing for an October IPO with a valuation of $2 trillion or more, with supporters projecting annual revenue of $100–120 billion by end of 2026. CNBC's Jim Cramer defended the valuation, citing strong revenue growth as justification.
(Source：Yahoo! News)