Anthropic appoints Harvard astrophysicist Christopher Stubbs to its Long-Term Benefit Trust

Anthropic has added a cosmologist to the group that holds unusual power over its board. Christopher Stubbs, an astrophysicist at Harvard University, has been named to the company’s Long-Term Benefit Trust. Who Stubbs is, and what he just joined Stubbs works in observational cosmology. He is best known for research showing that the universe is not just expanding but speeding up as it goes. Stubbs later led the ESSENCE supernova cosmology project. He was also part of the High-Z supernova team. His work has extended to the Vera C. Rubin Observatory as well. His new seat is a different kind of frontier. The Long-Term Benefit Trust, often shortened to LTBT, can elect a majority of Anthropic’s board of directors. It does that through a special class of shares called Class T stock. Under the arrangement, the trust gains the right to elect a board majority within four years of the close of Anthropic’s Series C round. For now, it has the authority to elect three board members. The trust is built for up to five trustees. Stubbs fills one of two open seats, which leaves one chair still empty. Trustees hold no equity in Anthropic. They are paid only on a time-based basis for their work advisin...