Anthropic details election safeguards for Claude ahead of US midterms

Anthropic has outlined the measures it is taking to prepare Claude for the US midterms and other major elections worldwide. The company runs pre-launch evaluations for political bias, with Claude Opus 4.7 and Sonnet 4.6 scoring 95% and 96%, respectively, on impartiality benchmarks. On a 600-prompt test suite assessing compliance with election-related usage policies, Opus 4.7 and Sonnet 4.6 responded appropriately 100% and 99.8% of the time. For the first time, Anthropic also tested whether models could autonomously plan and execute influence operations end-to-end, and reports that its latest models refused nearly every such task.