The
Anthropic
Institute

From inside a frontier AI lab, we confront the most significant challenges about how powerful AI will impact the world around us.

The Anthropic Institute exists to understand and shape the consequences of powerful AI systems. We focus on the urgent questions that will determine whether these systems deliver the radical upsides that we believe are possible in science, security, economic development, and human agency—or whether they will pose a range of unprecedented new risks to humanity. The Institute works across four major challenges, conducting technical work to understand how AI systems behave with respect to each, and how our societies will need to respond.

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Problems we're
working on

AI, jobs, and the economy.

How is AI reshaping jobs, inside Anthropic and elsewhere? And how do these impacts add up for economies around the world?

Threats and resilience.

What opportunities for greater societal resilience will powerful AI give us, and how could misuse of AI threaten or fracture social cohesion?

How AI systems behave in the wild.

What are the expressed “values” of advanced AI systems? How will societies shape their behavior, and how will they affect our own?

AI research and development.

If AI systems are being used to autonomously develop and improve themselves, how do humans stay in the loop, and how will these systems be governed?

Featured Project

Economic ResearchJan 30, 2026

Economic Index

Live telemetry on how AI is shaping the economy—updated regularly with findings from our economic research team.

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