Anthropic· Public Benefit· San Francisco, CA
Analyst, The Anthropic Institute
Classified Tasks (17)
Automate 0%Augment 82%Human-Only 18%
Augment (14)
AI assists, human decides
Research how Anthropic’s teams are working on the Institute’s challenge areas and document team activities.
analytical
Synthesize findings from across the organization into coherent analyses and summaries.
analytical
Turn research and synthesis into rigorous analysis that informs internal decisions and public understanding.
analytical
Communicate team work and its implications to external audiences on behalf of the Institute.
communication
Use Claude daily to surface insights about Anthropic’s work on the Institute’s problem areas.
operational
Explain the implications of automating AI research with AI systems in written or presentation form.
communication
Generate policy options and scenario-based recommendations for policymakers and stakeholders.
analytical
Conduct customer research to learn how AI adoption has changed customer organizations.
analytical
Synthesize customer learnings into actionable lessons and disseminate those lessons to broader audiences.
communication
Design and prototype how regulation of AI companies and AI systems could be implemented via AI systems.
technical
Conduct independent research using Anthropic’s AI systems and colleague expertise to refine and improve analyses.
analytical
Produce written analyses and memos about Anthropic’s approaches for internal leadership and public audiences.
communication
Partner with relevant teams to develop, edit, and publish public outputs.
operational
Devise and produce creative dissemination formats, including technical demonstrations, to communicate the Institute’s work to the world.
creative
Human-Only (3)
Requires human judgment
Interview and talk with colleagues across Anthropic to map how different teams approach consequential AI questions.
communication
Convene internal and external experts to generate policy options for specified scenarios.
leadership
Partner with internal teams to surface their insights and act as connective tissue between teams to integrate different perspectives.
operational
Job description
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 The Anthropic Institute is a new externally-facing function within Anthropic whose job is to benefit the public by giving the world new information about how the powerful AI systems we build are affecting our own company, as well as the broader economy, threat landscape, and the people and organizations that interact with our systems. The Anthropic Institute will generate and release information about four highly societally relevant challenge areas. These are: How our AI systems change jobs here and elsewhere, and the economy writ large How the expressed personality and values and normative behaviors of our AI systems affect the people, organizations, and societies that interact with them. How “closing the loop” on AI development leads to a fundamental shift in the relationship between humans and machines, both by changing how we build AI systems, and also by making AI systems potentially evolve much faster. Altering the defensive and offensive capabilities available to us and people in the world, with significant impacts on national security and the balance of power. About the role As a Member of Analytical Staff for The Anthropic Institute, you’ll spend your time researching how Anthropic is tackling the challenges the Institute is focused on, synthesizing what you learn from across the organization, and turning that into rigorous analysis that shapes both internal decisions and public understanding. You’ll be talking to colleagues all over Anthropic—building a picture of how different teams are approaching some of the most consequential questions in AI—and then helping the Institute communicate that work and its implications to the world. You will use Claude aggressively, creatively, and daily, to help you surface insights about what Anthropic is doing with regard to these problem areas. Some representative projects we can imagine working on include: Clearly explaining the implications of automating AI research with AI systems. Convening outside and internal experts to generate policy options a government may want to utilize if GDP growth rates in developed economies exceed 10% a year. Learning from our customers about how using AI technology has changed their own organizations and then turning that into lessons which others can benefit from. Asking and prototyping how the regulation of AI companies and AI systems could be done via AI systems themselves. You’ll also conduct your own research in these areas, working to utilize the AI systems you have access to at Anthropic as well as your colleagues to sharpen and improve your thinking. What you'll do Research how Anthropic’s teams are working on the Institute’s challenges and synthesize findings from across the organization into a coherent picture. Partner with teams to help them surface their insights to the world, often working to act as the ‘connective tissue’ between them and other teams to bring different insights together. Produce written analysis and memos about how Anthropic is approaching these problems—for both internal leadership and public audiences. Partner with relevant teams to develop and publish public outputs. Come up with creative ways to carry our work into the world: sometimes the most impactful way to talk about an issue is through a technical demonstration rather than a blo