Focus areas for The Anthropic Institute

At The Anthropic Institute (TAI), we’ll be using the information we can access from within a frontier lab to investigate AI’s impact on the world, and sharing our learnings with the public. Here, we’re sharing the questions that drive our research agenda.

In Core Views on AI Safety , we wrote that doing effective safety research required close contact with frontier AI systems. The same logic applies to doing effective research on AI’s impacts on security, the economy, and society.

At Anthropic, we can see early evidence that jobs like software engineering are changing radically. We’re watching the internal economy of Anthropic start to shift, new threats emerge from the systems we build, and early signs of AI contributing to speeding up the research and development of AI itself. In order to realize the full benefits of AI progress, we want to share as much of that information as we can. We’re researching how these dynamics might shape the outside world, and how the public can help direct those changes.

At TAI, we’ll study AI's real-world impacts from our position within a frontier lab, then publish those findings, to help external organizations, governments, and the public make better decisions about AI development.

We’ll share research, data, and tools to make it easier for individual researchers and institutions to work on these research questions. In particular, we’ll share:

TAI will shape the decisions Anthropic makes. That may look like the company sharing data with the world that it otherwise would not (like the Economic Index), or approaching how it releases technology differently (like cyber threat analyses which feed into initiatives like Project Glasswing ).

We expect that work developed by The Anthropic Institute will increasingly serve as important inputs to Anthropic’s Long-Term Benefit Trust (LTBT). The LTBT’s mission is to ensure that Anthropic continually optimizes its actions for the long-term benefit of humanity. We’ve developed this research agenda with the LTBT, as well as with staff across Anthropic.