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title: "Donating another $20 million to Public First Action"
description: "The announcement says an additional $20 million contribution to Public First Action brings total support to $40 million. Public First Action is described as nonpartisan, educating the public about AI and working across party lines on safeguards; the donations are restricted to public education and policy and cannot influence elections. It cites rapidly improving models, including Claude Mythos Preview’s discovery of thousands of high-severity vulnerabilities, and says the model was released to a limited set of cyber defenders through Project Glasswing. The policy agenda calls for verifiable safety claims, civil penalties, deployment controls for catastrophic risks, independent evaluation, security programs, and tighter controls on advanced chips and illicit model access."
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# Donating another $20 million to Public First Action

[Anthropic](https://yomu.fyi/company/anthropic) · Jul 22, 2026

**Type:** Announcement

## Summary

The announcement says an additional $20 million contribution to Public First Action brings total support to $40 million. Public First Action is described as nonpartisan, educating the public about AI and working across party lines on safeguards; the donations are restricted to public education and policy and cannot influence elections. It cites rapidly improving models, including Claude Mythos Preview’s discovery of thousands of high-severity vulnerabilities, and says the model was released to a limited set of cyber defenders through Project Glasswing. The policy agenda calls for verifiable safety claims, civil penalties, deployment controls for catastrophic risks, independent evaluation, security programs, and tighter controls on advanced chips and illicit model access.

## Context

Rapidly advancing AI capabilities could create serious risks, including vulnerabilities in critical systems, while governments need time to build the capacity to capture benefits and contain those risks. The announcement also argues that transparency alone is insufficient and that American AI leadership faces growing national security stakes.

## Approach / What changed

The contribution supports Public First Action’s public education and policy mission. The outlined policy approach includes government verification of safety claims, civil penalties for unsafe practices, possible limits on highly risky deployments, catastrophic-risk testing, independent evaluation, robust security programs, advanced-chip export controls, and measures against illicit model access and distillation attacks.

## Takeaways

- Both donations to Public First Action are designated exclusively for public education and policy work and cannot be used to influence federal, state, or local elections.
- Anthropic’s Advanced AI Framework calls for testing models that pose catastrophic risk, public disclosure of findings, independent evaluation, and government authority to slow or block dangerously risky deployments.
- The announcement supports tighter export controls on advanced chips and semiconductor manufacturing equipment, along with measures to curb illicit model access and distillation attacks.

**Tags:** [AI Governance](https://yomu.fyi/topic/ai-governance), [AI Security](https://yomu.fyi/topic/ai-security)

- Source: [Anthropic](https://www.anthropic.com/news/donation-public-first-action)
- Source URL: https://www.anthropic.com/news/donation-public-first-action
- Ingested by Yomu: 2026-09-09T11:37:01.738Z

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