Recently, the AI company Anthropic published an article on its blog detailing its efforts to ensure that its Claude AI chatbot remains "politically neutral." This move comes several months after former President Trump issued a ban on "woke AI" related policies, demonstrating the sensitivity of tech companies in responding to policy changes.
Anthropic stated that the goal of Claude is to "treat opposing political viewpoints equally," ensuring depth, engagement, and quality in its analysis. Although Trump's executive order only applies to government agencies, it may have wide-ranging implications for other companies, especially in large-scale AI models. Notably, Anthropic did not directly mention Trump's order in its statement.
To this end, Anthropic has developed a set of system prompts instructing Claude to avoid providing "unsolicited political opinions" and to ensure the accuracy of its responses, representing "multiple perspectives." Although this is not a foolproof method to ensure political neutrality, Anthropic believes that such guidelines can create "substantial differences" in its responses.
In addition, Anthropic introduced its use of reinforcement learning to encourage Claude's responses to be closer to a predefined set of "features." One goal is to ensure that Claude does not appear to be conservative or liberal when answering questions. To measure Claude's political neutrality, Anthropic also developed an open-source tool. Recent test results showed that Claude Sonnet 4.5 and Claude Opus 4.1 scored 95% and 94% respectively in neutrality, far higher than Meta's Llama 4 (66%) and GPT-5 (89%).
Anthropic emphasized in its blog that if AI models favor certain viewpoints, they may be more persuasive in supporting one side or completely reject certain arguments, which not only harms users' independence but also fails to effectively help users form their own judgments.
Key Points:
🌐 Anthropic is committed to ensuring that Claude AI remains neutral in its treatment of political views to meet the latest policy requirements.
🧠 Claude AI ensures the diversity and accuracy of its responses through system prompts and reinforcement learning.
📊 Recent tests show that Claude's political neutrality score is higher than other AI models, indicating its competitiveness in the market.
