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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.

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.

Societal ImpactsFeb 18, 2026Measuring AI agent autonomy in practiceHow 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 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 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. 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.