AI research and products that put safety at the frontier
AI will have a vast impact on the world. Anthropic is a public benefit corporation dedicated to securing its benefits and mitigating its risks.
Our Purpose
Building safer systems
We aim to build frontier AI systems that are reliable, interpretable, and steerable. We conduct research, develop safety techniques, and deploy the resulting systems through our partnerships and products.
Safety as a science
We treat AI safety as a systematic science. We apply our research to our products, feed what we learn back into our research, and regularly share our findings.
Interdisciplinary approach
Our researchers, engineers, policy experts, business leaders, and operators who bring our experience from many domains to our work.
A collective endeavor
We view ourselves as one part of a broader effort to develop and deploy AI safely. We collaborate with civil society, government, academia, nonprofits and industry to promote safety across the field.
The Team
We work across research, product, policy, and operations to build reliable and understandable AI systems.
Research
We conduct frontier AI research and explore novel and emerging areas, from interpretability and alignment research to AI’s economic and societal impacts.
Policy
We think about the impacts of our work and strive to communicate what we’re seeing at the frontier to policymakers and civil society in the US and abroad to help promote safe and reliable AI.
Product
We translate our research into tangible, practical tools like Claude that benefit businesses, nonprofits and civil society groups and their clients and people around the globe.
Operations
Our people, finance, legal, and recruiting teams are the human engines that make Anthropic go. We’ve had previous careers at NASA, startups, and the armed forces and our diverse experiences help make Anthropic a great place to work (and we love plants!).
What we value and how we act
Every day, we make critical decisions that inform our ability to achieve our mission. Shaping the future of AI and, in turn, the future of our world is a responsibility and a privilege. Our values guide how we work together, the decisions we make, and ultimately how we show up for each other and work toward our mission.
Act for the global good.
We strive to make decisions that maximize positive outcomes for humanity in the long run. This means we’re willing to be very bold in the actions we take to ensure our technology is a robustly positive force for good. We take seriously the task of safely guiding the world through a technological revolution that has the potential to change the course of human history, and are committed to helping make this transition go well.
Hold light and shade.
AI has the potential to pose unprecedented risks to humanity if things go badly. It also has the potential to create unprecedented benefits for humanity if things go well. We need shade to understand and protect against the potential for bad outcomes. We need light to realize the good outcomes.
Be good to our users.
At Anthropic, we define “users” broadly. Users are our customers, policy-makers, Ants, and anyone impacted by the technology we build or the actions we take. We cultivate generosity and kindness in all our interactions — with each other, with our users, and with the world at large. Going above and beyond for each other, our customers, and all of the people affected by our technology is meeting expectations.
Ignite a race to the top on safety.
As a safety-first company, we believe that building reliable, trustworthy, and secure systems is our collective responsibility and the market will reward it. We work to inspire a ‘race to the top’ dynamic where AI developers must compete to develop the most safe and secure AI systems. We want to constantly set the industry bar for AI safety and security and drive others to do the same.
Do the simple thing that works.
We take an empirical approach to problems and care about the size of our impact and not the sophistication of our methods. This doesn’t mean we throw together haphazard solutions. It means we try to identify the simplest solution and iterate from there. We don’t invent a spaceship if all we need is a bicycle.
Be helpful, honest, and harmless.
Anthropic is a high-trust, low-ego organization. We communicate kindly and directly, assuming good intentions even in disagreement. We are thoughtful about our actions, avoiding harm and repairing relationships when needed. Everyone contributes, regardless of role. If something urgently needs to be done, the right person to do it is probably you!
Put the mission first.
At the end of the day, the mission is what we’re all here for. It gives us a shared purpose and allows us to act swiftly together, rather than being pulled in multiple directions by competing goals. It engenders trust and collaboration, and is the final arbiter in our decisions. When it comes to our mission, none of us are bystanders. We each take personal ownership over making our mission successful.
Governance
Anthropic is a Public Benefit Corporation, whose purpose is the responsible development and maintenance of advanced AI for the long-term benefit of humanity. Our Board of Directors is elected by stockholders and our Long-Term Benefit Trust.
Anthropic Board of Directors
Dario Amodei
Daniela Amodei
Yasmin Razavi
Reed Hastings
Chris Liddell
Vas Narasimhan
LTBT Trustees
Dr. Ben Bernanke
Richard Fontaine
Neil Buddy Shah
Dr. Christopher Stubbs