Back to OverviewWorking 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 alignmentWhich 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 relevanceThough 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.Societal ImpactsDec 2, 2025How AI is transforming work at AnthropicWe 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. We found that AI use is radically changing the nature of work for software developers.Societal ImpactsDec 4, 2025Introducing 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 ImpactsApr 21, 2025Values in the wild: Discovering and analyzing values in real-world language model interactionsWhat values does Claude actually express during real conversations? Analyzing 700,000 interactions, this paper creates the first large-scale empirical taxonomy of AI values and finds that Claude adapts its expressed values to context—mirroring users in most cases, but resisting when core principles are at stake.Societal ImpactsFeb 15, 2022Predictability and Surprise in Large Generative ModelsLarge models have predictable loss via scaling laws but unpredictable capabilities. This tension has significant policy implications.Apr 30, 2026Societal ImpactsHow people ask Claude for personal guidanceFeb 18, 2026Societal ImpactsMeasuring AI agent autonomy in practiceDec 4, 2025Societal ImpactsIntroducing Anthropic Interviewer: What 1,250 professionals told us about working with AI Dec 2, 2025Societal ImpactsHow AI is transforming work at AnthropicAug 27, 2025Societal ImpactsAnthropic Education Report: How educators use ClaudeJun 27, 2025Societal ImpactsHow people use Claude for support, advice, and companionship Apr 28, 2025Societal ImpactsAnthropic Economic Index: AI’s impact on software developmentApr 21, 2025Societal ImpactsValues in the wild: Discovering and analyzing values in real-world language model interactionsApr 8, 2025AnnouncementsAnthropic Education Report: How university students use ClaudeMar 27, 2025Societal ImpactsAnthropic Economic Index: Insights from Claude 3.7 SonnetSee more