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Policy Development, Technical AI Governance

Anthropic · San Francisco, CA | New York City, NY | Washington, DC · On-site

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About Anthropic

Anthropic is an AI safety and research company that's working to build reliable, interpretable, and steerable AI systems. Backed by Accel, Bessemer and General Catalyst.

About the role

Anthropic believes AI capabilities are improving rapidly, and that AI safety policy needs to keep pace. Our Policy Development team translates technical insights into workable new policy ideas for governing frontier AI. As a member of the Policy Development team, you will drive our work on technical and cross-lab safety practices, deepen our work on frontier AI legislation, and develop new technical governance ideas that you pressure-test with researchers and carry into policy proposals. Found on 1752vc Careers, the job board for startup and VC roles.

What they're looking for

  • Are fluent in frontier AI safety and technical AI governance: the main players, proposals, and debates
  • Can read legislative text and comment usefully on it
  • Have expertise in any of the following domains: loss-of-control, alignment, compute governance, independent evaluation, model weight security, risk reporting
  • Write clearly for researchers, leadership, and policymakers
  • Can pick up new technical topics quickly and translate them to the broader policy landscape
  • Are comfortable with ambiguity and can own a project end to end
More about this role

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.

Anthropic believes AI capabilities are improving rapidly, and that AI safety policy needs to keep pace. Our Policy Development team translates technical insights into workable new policy ideas for governing frontier AI. As a member of the Policy Development team, you will drive our work on technical and cross-lab safety practices, deepen our work on frontier AI legislation, and develop new technical governance ideas that you pressure-test with researchers and carry into policy proposals. You will work closely with policy colleagues and with research, alignment, safety, and legal teams, and you’ll move easily between technical detail and how policy actually gets made.

  • Help develop technical safety best practices and standards for frontier development, working closely with policy, research, and safeguards teams
  • Support cross-lab discussions and initiatives and...

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