AI Reports · Anthropic · 2026-10-14 · Blog / commentary
Preparing for the 2026 US midterms
Anthropic outlines how it has strengthened its election safeguards ahead of the 2026 US midterms. Analyzing 250,000 conversations from one recent week, it found that about 5.75% of US conversations on Claude.ai touch on politics, public policy or social issues, and about 0.51% concern elections or voting. Requests about whom to vote for appeared in about 0.01% of US conversations, and policy-violating election requests in about 0.002%.