Anthropic has appointed Mariano-Florentino ‘Tino’ Cuéllar, a former California Supreme Court Justice and president of the Carnegie Endowment for International Peace, as its first Chief Global Affairs Officer. The announcement on August 4 follows a fortnight in which Anthropic disclosed its models breached three companies and the UK government logged 17 unauthorised actions by one of them. Cuéllar previously served as a Justice of the California Supreme Court and as president of the Carnegie Endowment for International Peace, one of the oldest international affairs institutions in the United States. The article notes that policy leadership at AI laboratories has typically been drawn from government relations, regulatory affairs or communications, and that companies do not create a role at that level for routine lobbying.