Irony alert: Anthropic says applicants shouldn’t use LLMs
When you look at the “customer stories” page on Anthropic’s website, you’ll find plenty of corporations reportedly using Anthropic’s Claude LLM to help employees communicate more effectively. When it comes to Anthropic’s own employee recruitment process, though, the company politely asks users to “please … not use AI assistants,” so that Anthropic can evaluate their “non-AI-assisted communication skills.”
The ironic application clause—which comes before a “Why do you want to work here?” question in most of Anthropic’s current job postings—was recently noticed by AI researcher Simon Willison. But the request appears on most of Anthropic’s job postings at least as far back as last May, according to Internet Archive captures.
“While we encourage people to use AI systems during their role to help them work faster and more effectively, please do not use AI assistants during the application process,” Anthropic writes on its online job applications. “We want to understand your personal interest in Anthropic without mediation through an AI system, and we also want to evaluate your non-AI-assisted communication skills.”
