Fresh from battling the US Department of Defense (DoD) over AI guardrails, Anthropic has returned this week with a new initiative: the company is founding a think tank, the Anthropic Institute, “to confront the most significant challenges that powerful AI will pose to our societies.”
Headed by Anthropic co-founder Jack Clark, who will take up a new role as head of public benefit, the Institute’s faculty will be completed by “an interdisciplinary staff of machine learning engineers, economists, and social scientists,” the company said.
It will unite and expand three internal teams: the Frontier Red Team, which stress tests and assesses AI models; Societal Impacts, which models how AI is being used in the real world; and Economic Research, which studies AI’s growing impact on economics and employment.
