Tabletop Exercise Lead, The Anthropic Institute
Core
Lead the Institute's tabletop exercise program to generate empirical evidence on how people and institutions respond to future AI risks and crises.
Role type
Senior program lead (tabletop exercises, wargaming, simulation)
Builds
A scalable library of tested scenarios, a facilitator kit, and AI-driven simulation tools for crisis decision-making.
Domain
AI safety, national security, government policy, crisis management
Deliverable
production ML models
Required skills
designing and running tabletop exercises/wargames/simulations for senior decision-makers, training in simulation/experimental methods/structured analysis, managing teams and hiring, using AI tools extensively, keeping scenarios technically grounded in AI capabilities
Preferred skills
published research on wargaming/simulation/crisis decision-making, running exercises that fed into real policy decisions, using AI agents/LMs as players/adjudicators, leading research programs through growth, existing relationships in national security/government/policy/AI
Technologies
Claude, AI agents, language models, simulation tools
Responsibilities
Set the program's research agenda and scenarios, design exercises as empirical studies, build measurement frameworks (assessments, logs, reports), turn results into findings and brief stakeholders, hire and manage a team and facilitators, maintain scenario library, create facilitator kits, direct AI-driven simulation tools
