Amid a wave of AI-fueled media layoffs, Anthropic—the kind of company driving the disruption—is making a human hire. The AI startup is seeking a Managing Editor to lead its growing editorial team, leaning on skills machines still can’t match.
Based in New York or San Francisco, the role will be the “organizational backbone” of the operation, steering collaboration, systems, and the people who keep it all running.
A human position in the age of AI
The rapid adoption of AI in the workforces has resulted in loss of jobs and uncertainty across industries. Concerns have even been raised by Anthropic’s own CEO,Dario Amodei, who claims unemployment could reach 10-20% in the next one to five years due to eliminated jobs.
In media alone, the effects have been particularly extensive. Earlier this year, Business Insider laying off 21% of its staff to favor the use of AI and live events. Amid staff cuts, many outlets are resorting to AI generated content, albeit some do inadvertly.
Human skills are in
While AI is here to stay, human-based skills are becoming more coveted than before.
The new job listing follows Anthropic’s communications team expansion, which set out to triple its team size by the end of the year, per Axios.
According to the listing, the editorial team oversees research communications and narrative content which focuses on AI and its societal impacts. This human-driven strategy follows Anthropic’s failed AI-generated blog, which tasked its chatbot Claude to write blog posts until it shut down a week after its launch.
According to the job description, the main responsibilities will be maintaining editorial calendar, coordinating workflows, and providing edits, which can often time be delegated to AI. However, most skills required point to human skills, including serving as a cross-team liaison, managing relationships, and enforcing deadlines.
Human skills, revalued
This year, LinkedIn’s Skills on the Rise list ranked AI literacy as the no. 1 skill employers are looking for, yet all the skills that followed— like conflict mitigation, adaptability, and innovative thinking—focused on soft skills.
Other reports are noticing the same trend, with Autodesk’s 2025 AI Job Report pointing to similar findings, saying “human skills aren’t being replaced—they’re being revalued.”
Sentiments regarding the growing appreciation for human skills echoed on social media as well, with one user reacted to the listing on LinkedIn saying, “Not surprised. AI is better every day, but humans are still needed to keep garbage from going in and out.”
“Editorial expertise is still a high-value craft. The unique combo of critical thinking, context awareness, audience empathy, storytelling judgment, fact-checking rigor, digital savvy, and creativity remains essential,” executive editor ad Deloitte Insights Annalyn Kurtz said in a LinkedIn post reacting to the job listing. “Even leading AI companies are recognizing that.”
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