Anthropic's Claude Corps will pay $85,000 to 1,000 early-career professionals - apply now

A $60B Vote of Confidence

Anthropic's Claude Corps fellowship program is a concrete approach to offset AI's impact on jobs and advance the goals of its Public Benefit arm. The company has allotted $150 million for the program, which will match 1,000 early-career professionals with partner nonprofits to bring 'the benefits of AI to communities across America.'

The program's first cohort begins in October with 100 fellows and will be followed by two more cohorts opening next year. To apply, you just need to be 18 or older, have no more than two years of full-time work experience, and be authorized to work in the US. Anthropic said it can support fellows who need to relocate to participate.

The program starts with Claude training hosted by Anthropic and CodePath, one of its partners on the project. In addition to the full-time salary and benefits, fellows get 'support from a CodePath mentor, office hours from Anthropic for their technical questions, an expansive Claude token budget, and professional guidance from their manager at the host organization,' Anthropic added.

Partner organizations are scattered across the US and range from major nonprofits like the YMCA and Goodwill Industries to local organizations like Texas-based SoundOff, a counseling and peer support provider, and the Reef Environmental Education Foundation in Key Largo, Florida. Other organizations focus on veteran support, professional guidance for low-income students, bipartisan economic initiatives, and food insecurity.

Why Cursor?

The Claude Corps initiative looks like a concrete approach by Anthropic to both offset AI's impact on jobs and advance the goals of its Public Benefit arm. The company has published regular research and policy papers on AI and the economy and has more proactively called for regulation than other AI companies. But beyond that, its initiatives, including its Economic Futures program and Economic Index, have focused on research rather than taking explicit action.

Claude Corps, on the other hand, directly creates jobs tied to using AI, albeit in small numbers. Alongside the US government, AI labs are in a meaningful position to influence how their tech impacts the economy, which they are leveraging to varying degrees.

The Road Ahead

The unpredictable part is what the job market will look like a year from now. If the program goes as planned, fellows will have developed replicable skills they can take into longer-term roles -- especially as more jobs expect familiarity with AI. The same could be true of nonprofits, which operate under similar conditions.