On the second day of announcing a new AI model designed for U.S. national security applications, Anthropic appointed national security expert Richard Fontaine as its long-term welfare trust.

Anthropomorphic long-term welfare trusts are a governance mechanism where human claims help promote security beyond profits and have the right to elect some boards of the company. Other members of the trust include Zachary Robinson, CEO of the Center for Effective Altruism, Neil Buddy Shah, CEO of the Clinton Health Access Initiative, and Kanika Bahl, President of Action on Evidence.

Humanity CEO Dario Amodei said in a statement that Fontane’s recruitment will “(enhance) the trust’s ability to guide humans through complex decisions about security-related AI”.

“Richard’s expertise is at a critical moment as advanced AI capabilities increasingly intersect with national security considerations,” Amodei continued. “I have long believed that ensuring democratic countries maintain leadership in AI development in chief is crucial to global security and common interests.”

Fontaine, as a trustee, has no anthropomorphic financial shares, previously served as a foreign policy advisor to the late Senator John McCain and is an adjunct professor of teaching security studies in Georgetown. For more than six years, he has been ahead of the New American Security Center, a national security think tank based in Washington, D.C., serving as president.

Humans are increasingly attracting U.S. national security customers in search of new sources of income. In November, the company partnered with Amazon's cloud computing division, anthropic's main partner and investor, to sell artificial AI to defense customers.

It should be clear that anthropomorphism is not the only AI laboratory to become the only AI laboratory after the defense contract. Openai seeks to build a closer relationship with the U.S. Department of Defense, and Meta recently revealed that it is making it work with defense partners. Meanwhile, Google is refining its version of Gemini AI, able to work in confidential environments and mainly build AI products for enterprises, Cohere, which is also working with Palantir to deploy its AI model.

Fontaine's recruitment is the ranking of executives for human beef. In May, the company appointed Netflix co-founder Reed Hastings to the board of directors.