Political Economist, Rule of Law at Anthropic · LumiJobs

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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.
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.
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

Political Economist, Rule of Law

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Anthropic

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