Anthropic Donates Additional $20 Million to Public First Action to Advance AI Safeguards

Anthropic Donates Additional $20 Million to Public First Action to Advance AI Safeguards Anthropic is providing an additional $20 million to the nonpartisan group Public First Action, raising its total support to $40 million to promote public education and policy safeguards around artificial intelligence. Anthropic increased its total funding for Public First Action to $40 million, restricted strictly to public education and policy rather than candidate elections. The company's Claude Mythos Preview discovered thousands of high-severity software vulnerabilities across all major operating systems and browsers, prompting a restricted release via Project Glasswing. Anthropic advocates for government powers to verify safety claims, enforce civil penalties, and potentially block or slow the deployment of models posing catastrophic harm risks. To safeguard democratic leadership in AI, the company supports tighter export controls on advanced chips and semiconductor manufacturing equipment, alongside measures against distillation attacks. Donation and Purpose Anthropic has committed an additional $20 million to Public First Action, following an initial donation in February 2026. The funds are designated solely for the nonpartisan group's public education and policy initiatives, with prohibitions on using the money to influence candidate elections. The organization works across party lines to advocate for sensible AI safeguards, transparency from frontier developers, and policies to sustain American AI leadership. Model Capabilities and Security Risks The rapid advancement of AI models presents severe security implications alongside potential scientific and medical benefits. Earlier in the year, Anthropic's Claude Mythos Preview identified thousands of critical vulnerabilities across major operating systems and browsers. Due to the danger of malicious actors exploiting critical infrastructure like hospitals or energy grids, Anthropic limited distribution of the model to cyber defenders via Project Glasswing. Regulatory and National Security Priorities While Anthropic supports state-level transparency mandates, it asserts transparency alone is insufficient given the speed of AI advancement. Under its Advanced AI Framework, the company urges governments to acquire authorities to verify corporate safety claims, mandate independent evaluations, implement civil penalties, and halt deployments carrying catastrophic risks. Additionally, it calls for tightening export controls on cutting-edge chips and manufacturing equipment to prevent authoritarian regimes from leveraging democratic AI advancements.

Anthropic向Public First Action追加2000万美元捐赠以推动AI安全政策 Anthropic宣布向无党派组织Public First Action追加捐赠2000万美元，将其累计资助额提升至4000万美元，用于支持AI公共教育并倡导建立更严格的AI安全与国家安全监管措施。 Anthropic向Public First Action追加捐款2000万美元，累计达4000万美元，资金仅限用于公共教育与政策任务，禁止用于政治竞选。 最新前沿模型带来严重系统性安全隐患，例如Claude Mythos Preview曾发现各大主流操作系统和浏览器的数千个高危漏洞。 仅靠透明度已不足够，Anthropic建议政府应有权核验企业安全承诺、实施民事处罚，并在必要时阻止具有灾难性风险的模型部署。 主张通过收紧先进芯片及半导体设备的出口管制、遏制非法模型访问与模型蒸馏攻击，以保障国家安全与民主国家的技术优势。 捐赠背景与组织职能 Anthropic自2026年2月首次资助以来，再次向Public First Action提供资金支持。该组织为无党派机构，与各党派合作以推动合理的AI防护措施。捐赠资金严格限定用于公共教育和政策倡导，旨在维持有意义的安全防线、巩固美国的技术领导地位并要求前沿AI企业提高透明度。 模型能力增长与监管框架提案 随着模型能力快速迭代，其潜在危害正在加剧。Anthropic此前通过有限范围向网络防御机构开放Claude Mythos Preview，以修复其在关键软件中识别出的数千个严重漏洞。为了兼顾技术红利与风险防控，Anthropic在其高级AI框架中主张，前沿开发者必须对灾难性风险进行测试、公布调查结果并接受独立评估，而政府应建立验证企业安全声明、实施民事处罚乃至叫停高危模型部署的法定权力。 国家安全与技术防线 在国际竞争格局下，Anthropic指出美国及民主盟友当前的技术优势十分脆弱。为防止民主国家的核心技术被用于推动威权主义AI发展，公司支持收紧先进芯片和半导体制造设备的出口管制，并防范非法模型访问和模型蒸馏等攻击手段。

We're contributing an additional $20 million to [Public First Action](https://publicfirstaction.us/), bringing our total support to $40 million. Public First Action is a nonpartisan organization that educates the public about AI and works with Republicans, Democrats, and Independents who are serious about putting sensible AI safeguards in place. Both of our donations were made exclusively to support Public First Action’s public education and policy mission, and cannot be used to influence the election of any candidate for federal, state, or local office. Our first donation in February 2026 was made to help promote policies that will maintain meaningful safeguards, sustain America’s AI leadership, and demand transparency from the companies building the most powerful AI models. In the months since, the case for these policies has only [gotten stronger](https://darioamodei.com/post/policy-on-the-ai-exponential). AI models continue to improve at a rapid pace. Earlier this year, Claude Mythos Preview [discovered](https://red.anthropic.com/2026/mythos-preview/) thousands of high-severity software vulnerabilities, including some in every major operating system and browser. We chose to release it to a limited set of cyber defenders through [Project Glasswing](https://www.anthropic.com/glasswing) to enable trusted actors to find and fix those weaknesses before anyone could exploit them. In the wrong hands, models like this could threaten the critical systems the country relies on, from hospitals to the energy grid. More capable models will bring benefits—like compressing drug discovery, developing treatments for diseases we’ve never been able to treat, accelerating science to deliver a century of progress in a decade, extending human lifespans, and driving the kind of economic growth that lets everyone share in the prosperity—but we need to make sure we are protected against the risks first in order to realize those benefits. Governments need time to build the capacity to capture benefits while containing risks, which is why they need to start now. We’ve long argued that frontier AI companies should be transparent about what their models can do and how they’re managing the risks. We’ve [supported](https://www.anthropic.com/news/the-need-for-transparency-in-frontier-ai) newly passed laws in several states that require greater transparency for AI developers. But given how fast the capabilities of the most powerful models are advancing, transparency alone is insufficient. We need policymakers and candidates to put forward measures that mitigate risks. This is the core of what we’ve laid out in [Anthropic's Advanced AI Framework](https://www.anthropic.com/policy-on-the-ai-exponential/aaif), which is the strongest policy proposal from any frontier lab or policymaker to date. Governments should be able to verify companies’ safety claims, enforce safe practices through civil penalties, and ultimately have a way to slow or block the deployment of AI models that pose a serious risk of catastrophic harm. Frontier AI developers should have to test models that pose catastrophic risk, be transparent to the public about their findings, submit them to independent evaluation, and maintain a robust security program. As the pace of AI advances accelerates, the national security stakes of AI are growing, as we outlined in [2028: Two Scenarios for Global AI Leadership](https://www.anthropic.com/research/2028-ai-leadership). America and our democratic allies have the advantage today, but that lead is tenuous. To ensure continued American AI leadership, we support policy efforts to tighten export controls on advanced chips and semiconductor manufacturing equipment and to curb illicit model access and distillation attacks, so that democracies’ best technologies are not used to advance authoritarian AI. These [policy frameworks](https://www.anthropic.com/policy-on-the-ai-exponential/aaif) are just a starting point. Our donation to Public First Action is one way in which we’re trying to raise the salience of this urgent policy debate.