ResearchPolicyCommitmentsLearnNewsTry ClaudeAnnouncementsInviting hard questionsJul 9, 2026Who decides the rules for AI?
People have a lot of hard questions about AI. It’s our job to address them.
Many people are positively disposed to AI. They already use it every day, and they see its potential for making our work and our lives less laborious, for changing the way we learn, for helping speed up scientific and technological progress, for creating new sources of prosperity, and for solving some of the biggest medical and social problems we face.
But many also hold serious concerns. Some are worried about AI’s potential contribution to job loss. Some fear that it could devalue creative work. Others are concerned about human agency: that AI might affect our ability to think for ourselves, to make human connections, and to have meaning in our lives. Many are concerned about what it means if AI’s capabilities fall into the wrong hands—and wonder whether the benefits outweigh the costs.
In the film below, you can hear some of these hopes and concerns from people we’ve spoken with.
Anthropic is a Public Benefit Corporation—it’s our mission to secure the benefits of advanced AI models and mitigate their risks. That public benefit mission has led us, for example, to invest in AI safeguards to reduce the risk of misuse, to research the behavior and inner workings of AI models to help us align them to beneficial goals, to give our AI models for free to scientists, and to launch a fellowship program that pairs early-career Claude users with nonprofits to help extend the benefits of AI.
To truly act in the public interest, we need to fully understand the hopes and concerns the public has about this new technology. As part of our new initiative on hard questions, we’re taking further steps to understand people’s views and questions on a variety of AI-related topics, and transparently chart our progress toward our public benefit goals.
We’ve already been laying the groundwork, asking thousands of people for their views on AI:
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