Introducing the Anthropic National Security and Public Sector Advisory Council

Today, we are announcing the formation of the Anthropic National Security and Public Sector Advisory Council, a group of leading bipartisan national security and public policy practitioners who will help Anthropic support the U.S. government and closely allied democracies in building and maintaining enduring technological advantages in an era of strategic competition.

The Advisory Council includes former Senators as well as former leaders from the U.S. Department of Defense, Intelligence Community, the Department of Energy, the Department of Justice, and former national security advisors to bipartisan Congressional leaders.

The Advisory Council will help us identify and develop high-impact applications that strengthen U.S. and close allies’ capabilities in key areas ranging from cybersecurity to intelligence analysis to scientific research. Members will also help us deepen our public-private partnerships and support development of industry-leading standards to promote a “race to the top” for impactful, responsible national security applications.

We look forward to announcing additional Council members in the coming months as our research and partnerships with public sector institutions advance. Today, we are honored to welcome the following inaugural members:

Deep public sector engagement is essential to Anthropic’s mission of ensuring the world safely makes the transition through transformative AI and that the United States and closely allied democracies continue to lead the development and deployment of powerful and trusted frontier AI, particularly for national security.

To that end, Anthropic has taken significant steps over the past several months to accelerate the responsible adoption of frontier AI capabilities across the defense, intelligence, and broader public sector community. This has included introducing a custom set of Claude Gov models built exclusively for U.S. national security customers, our $200 million partnership with DOD to prototype frontier AI capabilities that advance U.S. national security, deploying Claude to 10,000 scientists at Lawrence Livermore National Laboratory, partnering with the National Nuclear Security Administration to develop nuclear safeguards for AI, and making Claude available for $1 to all three branches of government.