Societal Impacts

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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. Research teams: Alignment Economic Research Interpretability Societal Impacts

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.

What 81,000 people want from AI Mar 18, 2026 We invited Claude.ai users to share how they use AI, what they dream it could make possible, and what they fear it might do. Nearly 81,000 people participated—the largest and most multilingual qualitative study of its kind. Here's what we found.

Societal Impacts Feb 18, 2026 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. Societal Impacts Dec 4, 2025 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. Societal Impacts Dec 2, 2025 How AI is transforming work at Anthropic We surveyed Anthropic engineers and researchers, conducted in-depth qualitative interviews, and studied internal Claude Code usage data to find out how AI use is changing how we do our jobs. Societal Impacts Apr 21, 2025 Values in the wild: Discovering and analyzing values in real-world language model interactions What values does Claude actually express during real conversations? Analyzing 700,000 interactions, this paper creates the first large-scale empirical taxonomy of AI values.

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Date Category Title Apr 30, 2026 Societal Impacts How people ask Claude for personal guidance Feb 18, 2026 Societal Impacts Measuring AI agent autonomy in practice Dec 4, 2025 Societal Impacts Introducing Anthropic Interviewer: What 1,250 professionals told us about working with AI Dec 2, 2025 Societal Impacts How AI is transforming work at Anthropic Aug 27, 2025 Societal Impacts Anthropic Education Report: How educators use Claude Jun 27, 2025 Societal Impacts How people use Claude for support, advice, and companionship Apr 28, 2025 Societal Impacts Anthropic Economic Index: AI’s impact on software development Apr 21, 2025 Societal Impacts Values in the wild: Discovering and analyzing values in real-world language model interactions Apr 8, 2025 Announcements Anthropic Education Report: How university students use Claude Mar 27, 2025 Societal Impacts Anthropic Economic Index: Insights from Claude 3.7 Sonnet

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