The opportunity
Anthropic has done pioneering work examining the economic impacts of AI. The AI & Rule of Law team takes an analogous approach to a different question: how will AI affect our constitutional democratic institutions?
What you'll do
Making fundamental contributions to the development and expansion of our: public data and research on how people use AI for politics, including regular reports and deep dives on elections and policy topics, and grow into leading this work over time
Designing and conduct empirical research on AI’s political effects, drawing: on external data sources and the privacy-preserving measurement systems internally
Designing, running, and analyzing experiments on systems of many AI agents,: testing whether and when tools from political economy (rules, monitoring, voting, dispute resolution) help agents govern themselves and stay under human oversight
Developing new methodological approaches for studying AI’s impact on:
Developing measurement and causal-inference tooling to help Anthropic: evaluate the downstream political consequences of its own training, product, and policy decisions
Building and maintaining relationships with academic institutions, policy: think tanks, and other research partners, and serve as the point of contact for outside researchers who use our data
What they're looking for
- Experience relevant to the study of AI’s impact on politics
- Track record of empirical research, particularly studies combining novel data: sources and game theory or those implementing frontier methods in causal inference
- Comfort operating with significant autonomy in an environment where the: problems are new and the playbook is still being written
- At least five years of relevant experience in academia, industry, or government
- Preparing for the 2026 US midterms
- Measuring political bias in Claude
- Clio: Privacy-preserving insights into AI use
- Introducing The Anthropic Institute
