Societal Impacts
Working closely with the Anthropic Policy and Safeguards teams, Societal Impacts is a technical research team that explores how AI is used in the real world.
Sociotechnical alignment
Which human values should AI models hold, and how should they operate in the face of conflicting or ambiguous values? How is AI used (and misused) in the wild? How can we anticipate future uses and risks of AI? Societal Impacts researchers develop experiments, training methods, and evaluations to answer these questions.
Policy relevance
Though the Societal Impacts team is technical, they often pick research questions that have policy relevance. They believe that providing trustworthy research concerning topics policymakers care about will lead to better policy (and overall) outcomes for everyone.
Enabling independent research on how people use Claude
We ran a pilot giving external researchers access to aggregate, real-world Claude usage data. In this post, we share high-level results and what we learned running this pilot.
Claude’s values across models and languages
New research into how the values expressed by Claude vary across the top 20 languages on Claude.ai.
Measuring AI agent autonomy in practice
How much autonomy do people grant agents? How does that change as people gain experience? We analyzed millions of human-agent interactions to answer these and other questions.
Introducing Anthropic Interviewer: What 1,250 professionals told us about working with AI
We built an interview tool called Anthropic Interviewer. Powered by Claude, Anthropic Interviewer runs detailed interviews automatically and at unprecedented scale.
Publications
- Enabling independent research on how people use Claude
- Claude’s values across models and languages
- How people ask Claude for personal guidance
- Measuring AI agent autonomy in practice
- Introducing Anthropic Interviewer: What 1,250 professionals told us about working with AI
- How AI is transforming work at Anthropic
- Anthropic Education Report: How educators use Claude
- How people use Claude for support, advice, and companionship
- Anthropic Economic Index: AI’s impact on software development
- Values in the wild: Discovering and analyzing values in real-world language model interactions