# Research

Our research teams investigate the safety, inner workings, and societal impacts of AI models – so that artificial intelligence has a positive impact as it becomes increasingly capable.

Research teams: [Alignment](https://www.anthropic.com/research/team/alignment?939688b5_page=2&e45d281a_page=6) | [Economic Research](https://www.anthropic.com/research/team/economic-research?939688b5_page=2&e45d281a_page=6) | [Interpretability](https://www.anthropic.com/research/team/interpretability?939688b5_page=2&e45d281a_page=6) | [Societal Impacts](https://www.anthropic.com/research/team/societal-impacts?939688b5_page=2&e45d281a_page=6)

### Interpretability

The mission of the Interpretability team is to discover and understand how large language models work internally, as a foundation for AI safety and positive outcomes.

### Alignment

The Alignment team works to understand the risks of AI models and develop ways to ensure that future ones remain helpful, honest, and harmless.

### Societal Impacts

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.

### Frontier Red Team

The Frontier Red Team analyzes the implications of frontier AI models for cybersecurity, biosecurity, and autonomous systems.

[**Project Deal**](https://www.anthropic.com/features/project-deal)

[Research Apr 24, 2026  
We created a marketplace for employees in our San Francisco office, with one big twist. We tasked Claude with buying, selling and negotiating on our colleagues’ behalf.](https://www.anthropic.com/features/project-deal)

[Interpretability Apr 2, 2026  
**Emotion concepts and their function in a large language model**  
All modern language models sometimes act like they have emotions. What’s behind these behaviors? Our interpretability team investigates.](https://www.anthropic.com/research/emotion-concepts-function) 
[Societal Impacts Mar 18, 2026  
**What 81,000 people want from AI**  
We invited Claude.ai users to share how they use AI, what they dream it could make possible, and what they fear it might do. Nearly 81,000 people participated—the largest and most multilingual qualitative study of its kind. Here's what we found.](https://www.anthropic.com/81k-interviews) 
[Policy Dec 18, 2025  
**Project Vend: Phase two**  
In June, we revealed that we’d set up a small shop in our San Francisco office lunchroom, run by an AI shopkeeper. It was part of Project Vend, a free-form experiment exploring how well AIs could do on complex, real-world tasks. How has Claude's business been since we last wrote?](https://www.anthropic.com/research/project-vend-2) 
[Alignment Feb 3, 2025  
**Constitutional Classifiers: Defending against universal jailbreaks**  
These classifiers filter the overwhelming majority of jailbreaks while maintaining practical deployment. A prototype withstood over 3,000 hours of red teaming with no universal jailbreak discovered.](https://www.anthropic.com/research/constitutional-classifiers)

## Publications

Date | Category | Title
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[Apr 22, 2026](https://www.anthropic.com/research/economic-index-survey-announcement) | Economic Research | Announcing the Anthropic Economic Index Survey  
[Apr 22, 2026](https://www.anthropic.com/research/81k-economics) | Economic Research | What 81,000 people told us about the economics of AI  
[Apr 14, 2026](https://www.anthropic.com/research/automated-alignment-researchers) | Alignment | Automated Alignment Researchers: Using large language models to scale scalable oversight  
[Apr 9, 2026](https://www.anthropic.com/research/trustworthy-agents) | Policy | Trustworthy agents in practice  
[Apr 2, 2026](https://www.anthropic.com/research/emotion-concepts-function) | Interpretability | Emotion concepts and their function in a large language model  
[Mar 31, 2026](https://www.anthropic.com/research/how-australia-uses-claude) | Economic Research | How Australia Uses Claude: Findings from the Anthropic Economic Index  
[Mar 24, 2026](https://www.anthropic.com/research/economic-index-march-2026-report) | Economic Research | Anthropic Economic Index report: Learning curves  
[Mar 23, 2026](https://www.anthropic.com/research/introducing-anthropic-science) | Science | Introducing our Science Blog  
[Mar 23, 2026](https://www.anthropic.com/research/long-running-Claude) | Science | Long-running Claude for scientific computing  
[Mar 23, 2026](https://www.anthropic.com/research/vibe-physics) | Science | Vibe physics: The AI grad student