Jay Kreps, co-founder and CEO of Confluent, has joined Anthropic’s Board of Directors. . . . Jay was appointed to the board by Anthropic’s Long-Term Benefit Trust. . . . Separately, Luke Muehlhauser has decided to step down from his Board role to focus on his work at Open Philanthropy.
I’m glad that the Trust elected a board member.
I still really want to know whether this happened on schedule.
I’m interested in what will happen to Luke’s seat — my guess is that the Trust’s next appointment will fill it.
The timing makes me think it didn’t happen on schedule and they are announcing this now in response to save face and pre-empt bad PR from this post (though I am only like 75% confident that something like that is going on, and my guess is the appointment itself has been in the works for a while). Seems IMO like a bad sign to do that without being clear about the timing and the degree to which a past commitment was violated.
(Also importantly, they said they would appoint a fifth board-member, but instead it seems like this board member replaced Luke, so they actually stuck to 4)
I bet the timing is a coincidence or due to internal questions/pressure, not PR concerns. Regardless I should ask someone at Anthropic how this post was received within Anthropic.
The plan was for the Trust to elect a fifth board member and also eventually replace Luke and Daniela. I totally believe Anthropic that Luke’s departure was unrelated to Jay’s arrival and generally non-suspicious. [Edit: but I do wish he’d been replaced with a safety-focused board member. My weak impression is that OP has the right to fill that seat until the Trust does; probably OP wants to distance itself from Anthropic but just giving up a board seat seems like a bad call.]
I originally reacted skeptically to this, but I am actually not that skeptical of “they posted now prompted by this, but this was in the works for a while”. (I missed “this was in the works for a while” on my first read of your comment.)
Update:
I’m glad that the Trust elected a board member.
I still really want to know whether this happened on schedule.
I’m interested in what will happen to Luke’s seat — my guess is that the Trust’s next appointment will fill it.
The timing makes me think it didn’t happen on schedule and they are announcing this now in response to save face and pre-empt bad PR from this post (though I am only like 75% confident that something like that is going on, and my guess is the appointment itself has been in the works for a while). Seems IMO like a bad sign to do that without being clear about the timing and the degree to which a past commitment was violated.
(Also importantly, they said they would appoint a fifth board-member, but instead it seems like this board member replaced Luke, so they actually stuck to 4)
Looks like it was timed to come out before today’s TIME articles.
I bet the timing is a coincidence or due to internal questions/pressure, not PR concerns. Regardless I should ask someone at Anthropic how this post was received within Anthropic.
The plan was for the Trust to elect a fifth board member and also eventually replace Luke and Daniela. I totally believe Anthropic that Luke’s departure was unrelated to Jay’s arrival and generally non-suspicious. [Edit: but I do wish he’d been replaced with a safety-focused board member. My weak impression is that OP has the right to fill that seat until the Trust does; probably OP wants to distance itself from Anthropic but just giving up a board seat seems like a bad call.]
I originally reacted skeptically to this, but I am actually not that skeptical of “they posted now prompted by this, but this was in the works for a while”. (I missed “this was in the works for a while” on my first read of your comment.)
No, I just gaslit you. I edited it when I saw your reaction as a clarification. Sorry about that, should have left a note that I edited it.