Help wanted: Anthropic hires to head off catastrophe

Per Axios, Anthropic is hiring 32 enforcement analysts to prevent its own technology from being misused — in domains ranging from explosives and nuclear weapons to biological threats and cybercrime. The roles offer salaries ranging from two hundred thousand to three hundred thousand dollars, and the company's strategy is explicit: stress-test its models now against these specific harms, rather than risk misuse later. CEO Dario Amodei has publicly warned about biological attacks enabled by AI, and Anthropic emphasizes its commitment to responsible development. The deeper pattern: as AI grows more powerful, labs are building hundreds-person safety teams — and without coherent regulation, private companies are leading on implementing guardrails.

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