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?
Increasingly powerful AI systems will put pressure on societal functions at every level - the courts, legislatures, electoral systems, oversight bodies, and the legal frameworks that hold democratic governance together. Our team exists to ask hard questions about those vulnerabilities, and to seek out strategies for protecting democratic freedoms - in the short and long term, through both technical and policy levers.
This is early, high-stakes research. The team is small, the problems are genuinely unsolved, and the work will matter.
Responsibilities
Projects on this team are illustrative rather than fixed - we expect the research agenda to evolve as both AI capabilities and institutional pressures change. Current and expected focus areas include:
AI safety evaluations with a legal alignment lens - developing frameworks to assess whether frontier AI systems behave consistently with constitutional norms, due process, and rule-of-law principles
Institutional vulnerability analysis - identifying where AI creates novel pressure points in democratic governance, and proposing both policy and technical mitigations
Novel legal issues in frontier AI - mapping the unsettled legal terrain created by capable AI systems, including questions of liability, agency, and institutional authority
Applications that bolster democratic processes - developing or identifying ways AI could strengthen civic participation, legislative capacity, or judicial function
You will use Claude aggressively and creatively throughout this work - as a research tool, a thought partner, and a subject of inquiry.
Requirements
A primary degree in law, political science, or a closely related field at the Ph.D. level or equivalent - OR extensive government experience at a leadership level
Demonstrated ability to produce rigorous, public-facing work - scholarship, policy analysis, government output, or a published body of writing
At least five years of relevant experience in academia, industry, or government
Experience at the intersection of legal or political theory and emerging technology
A track record of working across disciplines - a legal scholar who has engaged seriously with AI, or a policy official who has worked on technology governance
Comfort operating with significant autonomy in an environment where the problems are new and the playbook is still being written
The annual compensation range for this role is listed below.
For sales roles, the range provided is the role's On Target Earnings ("OTE") range, meaning that the range includes both the sales commissions/sales bonuses target and annual base salary for the role.
Annual Salary:
$295,000 - $345,000 USD
Logistics
Minimum education: Bachelor's degree or an equivalent combination of education, training, and/or experience
Required field of study: A field relevant to the role as demonstrated through coursework, training, or professional experience
Minimum years of experience: Years of experience required will correlate with the internal job level requirements for the position
Location-based hybrid policy: Currently, we expect all staff to be in one of our offices at least 25% of the time. However, some roles may require more time in our offices.
Visa sponsorship: We do sponsor visas! However, we aren't able to successfully sponsor visas for every role and every candidate. But if we make you an offer, we will make e
Benefits
Performance bonus
Additional Information
About Anthropic
Anthropic's mission is to create reliable, interpretable, and steerable AI systems. We want AI to be safe and beneficial for our users and for society as a whole. Our team is a quickly growing group of committed researchers, engineers, policy experts, and business leaders working together to build beneficial AI systems.
About The Anthropic Institute
Anthropic is a public benefit corporation building some of the world's most powerful AI systems. The Anthropic Institute is a new externally-facing organization within Anthropic whose purpose is to give the world new information about how the AI systems we build are affecting the economy, democratic institutions, and the people and organizations that interact with our systems.
The Institute sits inside a frontier lab, with access to information only AI developers possess. That position is what makes our work different. We don't just study AI from the outside. We study it from within.
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