The Anthropic Institute publishes its research agenda in four areas.

The Anthropic Institute has published its research agenda on AI economic diffusion, security threats, deployed system behaviors, and AI-driven R&D.

The Anthropic Institute (TAI), Anthropic's research arm dedicated to the societal impacts of artificial intelligence, is publishing its research agenda, structured around four pillars: economic diffusion, threats and resilience, the behavior of large-scale deployed AI systems, and AI-driven R&D. The institute aims to leverage its internal position within a frontier lab to observe early the transformations underway and publish its findings for external researchers, governments, and the public.

On the economic front, TAI plans to enrich the Anthropic Economic Index with more granular and frequent data, focusing on the sectoral diffusion of AI, its effects on productivity, and the professional pipeline question: how to train senior professionals if AI absorbs the tasks that traditionally structure junior training. The threats pillar specifically informs the agenda of the Frontier Red Team, with work on the offensive-defensive balance in cyber and biology, and on the potential for a crisis management infrastructure inspired by Cold War-era mechanisms.

The third pillar, AI systems in the wild, focuses on collective epistemology when millions of users consult the same models, on the governance of autonomous agents, and on the values expressed by systems in production. The last pillar, on AI-driven R&D, directly addresses recursive self-improvement: telemetry of scientific acceleration, intelligence explosion simulation exercises, and available intervention points to slow its trajectory.

TAI's work is designed to inform Anthropic's internal decisions and the Long-Term Benefit Trust. A four-month paid Fellowship program is open to researchers wishing to contribute to these questions.