Anthropic launches The Anthropic Institute to study AI's societal impact
The improvements we make are compounding over time. Extremely powerful AI is coming far sooner than many think.
Anthropic has launched The Anthropic Institute, a research unit focused on how powerful AI will reshape society. Led by co-founder Jack Clark, the Institute combines three existing teams: Frontier Red Team (stress-testing AI limits), Societal Impacts (real-world usage), and Economic Research (jobs and economy). It will also study AI progress forecasting and legal system interactions. The Institute has hired Matt Botvinick from Google DeepMind to lead work on AI and the rule of law, and economist Anton Korinek to study how transformative AI could reshape economic activity. The goal is to share what Anthropic learns from building frontier systems and engage with communities facing AI-driven change. This matters because Anthropic believes extremely powerful AI is arriving faster than most expect.