Anthropic's Claude Sonnet 4.5 Achieves 94% Political Neutrality Rating Amid Trump Administration Pressure Over 'Woke AI' Accusations
Summary
Anthropic's Claude Sonnet 4.5 achieves 94% political neutrality rating, outperforming competitors GPT-5 and Llama 4, as the company faces Trump administration accusations of liberal bias and rewrites system instructions to ensure balanced political responses.
Key Points
- Anthropic releases new evaluation showing its Claude Sonnet 4.5 model achieves a 94% political 'even-handedness' rating, outperforming OpenAI's GPT-5 (89%) and Meta's Llama 4 (66%)
- The company faces intensified political pressure from the Trump administration, with AI czar David Sacks publicly accusing Anthropic of pushing liberal ideology amid new federal procurement rules barring 'woke AI'
- Anthropic rewrites Claude's system instructions to include political neutrality guidelines such as avoiding unsolicited political opinions, using neutral terminology, and being able to articulate opposing viewpoints equally