简而言之 前美联储主席本·伯南克加入了 Anthropic 的人工智能监督委员会，这有助于指导公司的长期战略。 这位经历过 2008 年金融危机的资深人士将就人工智能的经济和社会影响提供建议。 伯南克加入董事会之际，投资者正在争论人工智能估值飙升是否类似于过去的市场泡沫。 人工智能巨头 Anthropic 周四宣布，领导美国央行度过 2008 年全球金融危机的前美联储主席本·伯南克 (Ben Bernanke) 已加入 Anthropic 的独立监督机构。 人类长期利益信托基金旨在确保公司开发先进的人工智能，以造福人类的长期利益。它有权任命 Anthropic 董事会成员，并就与人工智能社会影响相关的决策向董事会和公司领导层提供建议。 伯南克现在是该信托基金的四名成员之一。他与社会企业家尼尔·巴迪·沙阿、乔治·W·布什政府前国家安全官员理查德·方丹以及乔·拜登总统前情报顾问马里亚诺-弗洛伦蒂诺·奎拉尔一起。
Anthropic 表示，伯南克研究金融危机和引导美国经济度过最动荡时期之一的经验将有助于该公司评估人工智能对劳动力和更广泛经济的影响。 伯南克在一份声明中表示：“人工智能的潜力是巨大的，其结果的范围也是巨大的。” “这种潜力如何发挥将部分取决于我们围绕它建立的机构。” 伯南克的任命正值一些投资者和经济学家警告称，大量资本涌入人工智能领域，类似于过去市场繁荣时期的投机过剩。英伟达首席执行官黄仁勋今年早些时候表示，在人工智能估值是否已达到泡沫区域的更广泛争论中，随着 OpenAI 和 Anthropic 距离潜在公开上市越来越近，该芯片制造商可能会完成对 OpenAI 和 Anthropic 的重大投资。
这一消息发布之前，Anthropic 与特朗普政府的关系也经历了一段动荡的时期。上个月，美国商务部暂时对该公司最新的人工智能模型实施出口管制，但在 Anthropic 引入额外保障措施并与美国官员达成谅解后，美国商务部又改变了做法。 伯南克在金融史上仍然是一个两极分化的人物。 2006年至2014年担任美联储主席期间，他负责监管美国央行，应对美国房地产市场崩溃以及随之而来的金融危机将全球经济推入大萧条以来最严重的衰退。 虽然一些经济学家认为他的干预措施有助于避免更严重的崩溃，但批评者认为，监管机构未能在危机发生前认识到不断增加的风险，并且长期以来一直质疑危机后做出的决定，包括雷曼兄弟的倒闭。 伯南克因其对银行和金融危机的研究而获得2022年诺贝尔经济学奖。 每日简报时事通讯 每天从当前的热门新闻报道以及原创专题、播客、视频等开始。
In brief
Former Fed Chair Ben Bernanke joined Anthropic’s AI oversight board, which helps guide the company’s long-term strategy.
The 2008 financial crisis veteran will advise on AI’s economic and societal impacts.
Bernanke joins the board as investors debate whether surging AI valuations resemble past market bubbles.
Former Federal Reserve Chairman Ben Bernanke, who led the U.S. central bank through the 2008 global financial crisis, has joined Anthropic’s independent oversight body, the AI giant announced Thursday.
The Anthropic Long-Term Benefit Trust is supposed to ensure the company develops advanced AI for the long-term benefit of humanity. It has the power to appoint Anthropic board members, and advises the board and company leadership on decisions related to AI’s societal impact.
Bernanke is now one of four members of the Trust. He joins social entrepreneur Neil Buddy Shah, Richard Fontaine, a former national security official in the George W. Bush administration, and Mariano-Florentino Cuéllar, a former intelligence advisor to President Joe Biden.
Anthropic said Bernanke's experience studying financial crises and steering the U.S. economy through one of its most turbulent periods would help the company assess AI's effects on workforces and the broader economy.
“The potential of artificial intelligence is enormous, and so is the range of outcomes,” Bernanke said in a statement. “How that potential plays out will depend, in part, on the institutions we build around it.”
Bernanke's appointment comes as some investors and economists warn that the flood of capital pouring into artificial intelligence resembles the speculative excess of past market booms. Nvidia CEO Jensen Huang said earlier this year the chipmaker is likely finished making major investments in OpenAI and Anthropic as both companies move closer to potential public listings, amid broader debate over whether AI valuations have reached bubble territory.
The announcement also follows a turbulent stretch for Anthropic's relationship with the Trump administration. Last month, the Commerce Department temporarily subjected the company's newest AI models to export controls, before reversing course after Anthropic introduced additional safeguards and reached an understanding with U.S. officials.
Bernanke remains a polarizing figure in financial history. As Fed chair from 2006 to 2014, he oversaw America’s central bank as the U.S. housing market collapsed and the ensuing financial crisis pushed the global economy into its worst downturn since the Great Depression.
While some economists credit his interventions with helping avert an even more severe collapse, critics argue regulators failed to recognize mounting risks before the crisis—and have long questioned decisions made during its aftermath, including the failure of Lehman Brothers.
Bernanke was awarded the 2022 Nobel Prize in Economic Sciences for his research on banks and financial crises.
