According to a job posting spotted by Fortune, this "presidential engagement" program will also drive the company's political strategy and political financing.
Anthropic is preparing a program of "presidential engagement" for the American election of 2028, Fortune says. The company recruits a political program manager to form an internal team that will work directly with Democratic and Republican candidates on AI issues, help management define its political strategy and manage its political financing program.
Training all "equal" candidates
According to the announcement, he will have to map potential candidates from both sides, offer them and their advisers training in AI policies on an equal footing, prepare Anthropic leaders for these exchanges and anticipate the stages of the electoral programme, convention and transition. The company states that it wants every serious candidate to understand the technology and the reasons for it.
The lobbying of technology companies is nothing new, and OpenAI, for its part, recruits a leader in relations with Congress. But such a formalized internal mechanism turned towards a presidential campaign surprises some observers, such as the president of the Center for Political Accountability, Bruce F. Freed, who says he never saw anything like it.
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