Anthropic posts London assistant role

Artificial intelligence giant Anthropic reportedly offered a salary of one hundred forty five thousand euros, roughly equal to one hundred ninety thousand dollars, for a personal assistant in its London office.

The job description

The posting called for a highly organized, detail-oriented, and self-starting administrative business partner to support senior go-to-market leaders.

Day-to-day responsibilities

Responsibilities would include scheduling, handling travel logistics, managing an executive's inbox and communications, filing expense claims, and other office tasks.

Required skills and qualities

The role would require outstanding attention to detail, strong relationship-building skills, and the ability to anticipate needs across teams while ensuring responsive, error-free execution.

“outstanding attention to detail, strong relationship-building skills, and the ability to anticipate needs across teams while ensuring responsive, error-free execution”

Post has been removed

The posting, since removed from Anthropic's website but preserved elsewhere, was discovered by observers tracking the company's hiring.

Anthropic declines to comment

Fast Company reached out to Anthropic for comment on the job posting and the company's response to inquiries.

Social media points out the irony

Social media users are pointing to the apparent irony of a leading agentic AI firm hiring a human worker to do a job that an AI agent could, at least theoretically, largely handle.

A user's quip

One social media user quipped that somebody should really build some sort of tech tool that can handle this stuff autonomously.

“Somebody should really build some sort of tech tool that can handle this stuff autonomously”