Political Economist, Rule of Law

<div class="content-intro"><h2><strong>About Anthropic</strong></h2> <p>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.</p></div><h2>About the role</h2> <p>Anthropic has done pioneering work examining the economic impacts of AI. The AI &amp; Rule of Law team takes an analogous approach to a different question: how will AI affect our constitutional democratic institutions?</p> <p>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.</p> <p>This is early, high-stakes research. The team is small, the problems are genuinely unsolved, and the work will matter.</p> <p>We are looking for someone with deep expertise in both AI and at least one of: law, government, political science, or public policy. The ideal candidate understands the technical landscape well enough to reason about AI capabilities and risks, and understands democratic institutions well enough to see where those risks become structural threats.</p> <h2>Key responsibilities</h2> <p>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:</p> <ul> <li>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