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The artificial intelligence firm Anthropic is launching a new corporate political action committee, becoming the latest technology firm to start an employee-funded PAC for election season.
Anthropic PBC filed a statement of organization Friday to form “AnthroPAC.” The Hill has learned it will be funded exclusively and voluntarily by employees, a common strategy for technology companies to throw money into races.
It is expected to be bipartisan and give money to candidates on both sides of the aisle and will be overseen by a bipartisan board of directors, The Hill learned.
The donations are capped at $5,000 per person per year under federal law and will be publicly reported through Federal Election Commission filings. Other technology companies like Google, Microsoft and Amazon have similarly structured PACs.
A handful of President Trump-aligned figures expressed skepticism Friday that the PAC will donate to both sides given Anthropic’s rocky relationship with the Trump administration and past donations to Democrats.
While this is the first employee-funded PAC for Anthropic, the AI firm has already thrown money into races this cycle. Anthropic in February donated $20 million to Public First Action, a group launched last year to support efforts to develop AI safeguards.
Anthropic has clashed with the Trump administration in recent months, particularly over its perception of safeguards for the emerging technology. The Pentagon took the unprecedented move in February to label Anthropic a supply chain risk after the company demanded its technology not be used in fully autonomous lethal weapons or for the mass surveillance of Americans.
Anthropic sued the Pentagon, arguing the Defense agency retaliated against the AI firm for what it believes is a “protected viewpoint” of the company. A federal judge in California placed a temporary halt on the designation, as well as a pause of Trump’s informal social media post directing civilian agencies to also stop using Anthropic’s products.
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