Anthropic Fellows Program, The Anthropic Institute (Economics & Policy)

The role

Fellows will conduct research using external infrastructure like open-source models and public APIs. The goal is to produce public outputs such as paper submissions.

What you will do

• Undergo a project selection and mentor matching process
• Design and conduct empirical research on AI's economic effects
• Develop new methodological approaches for studying AI's impact on labor markets, the future of work, and society
• Analyse the offense–defense balance for AI-enabled cyber and bio capabilities
• Measure the extent to which model performance increases with custom harnesses
• Identify market driven mechanisms to improve societal resilience to AI threats
• Identify metrics relating to AI R&D that could serve as early warning signals

Required qualifications

• Fluent in Python programming
• Available to work full-time on the Fellows program
• Work authorization in the US, UK, or Canada
• Located in the US, UK, or Canada during the program

Nice to have

• Prior experience in economics or policy research
• Strong track record of empirical research

Benefits

• Direct mentorship from Anthropic researchers
• Substantial funding for compute and other research expenses

Before you apply

• Must have work authorization in the US, UK, or Canada
• Must be located in the US, UK, or Canada during the program
• Visa sponsorship is not offered
• Interview process includes an initial application, assessments, and interviews

About the company

Anthropic is a public benefit corporation headquartered in San Francisco. Its mission is to create reliable, interpretable, and steerable AI systems.