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Someone asked if there was an Anthropic equivalent to OpenAI's IRS mission statements over time.

Anthropic are a "public benefit corporation" but not a non-profit, so they don't have the same requirements to file public documents with the IRS every year.

But when I asked Claude it ran a search and dug up this Google Drive folder where Zach Stein-Perlman shared Certificate of Incorporation documents he obtained from the State of Delaware!

Anthropic's are much less interesting that OpenAI's. The earliest document from 2021 states:

The specific public benefit that the Corporation will promote is to responsibly develop and maintain advanced Al for the cultural, social and technological improvement of humanity.

Every subsequent document up to 2024 uses an updated version which says:

The specific public benefit that the Corporation will promote is to responsibly develop and maintain advanced AI for the long term benefit of humanity.