Anthropic 7/9 LTBT adds Ben Bernanke: a governance signal, not a new structural constraint

Anthropic on 2026-07-09 announced that former Fed Chair Ben Bernanke has been appointed to the Long-Term Benefit Trust, alongside the three currently named trustees (Neil Buddy Shah as Chair, Richard Fontaine, Mariano-Florentino Cuéllar); Co-Founder & President Daniela Amodei publicly framed AI as the most economically consequential modern technology and asserted Anthropic has 'a dual responsibility to understand those effects and to act on them.' The LTBT holds a minority equity stake and has no operational veto over product or research decisions.