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Anthropic is a major AI safety-focused lab and frequent reference point in alignment discussions; this page provides their public-facing mission statement and organizational context.

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Anthropic's official company page presenting its mission as an AI safety company focused on building reliable, interpretable, and steerable AI systems. It positions Anthropic as working at the frontier of AI capabilities while prioritizing safety research.

Key Points

  • Anthropic describes itself as an AI safety company working to build AI systems that are safe, beneficial, and understandable.
  • The company conducts both frontier AI development and safety research, operating on the belief that leading labs should prioritize safety.
  • Anthropic is the creator of the Claude family of AI assistants.
  • The company emphasizes long-term safety alongside near-term commercial deployment as complementary goals.

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## Our Purpose

We believe AI will have a vast impact on the world. Anthropic is dedicated to building systems that people can rely on and generating research about the opportunities and risks of AI.

- ### We Build Safer Systems





We aim to build frontier AI systems that are reliable, interpretable, and steerable. We conduct frontier research, develop and apply a variety of safety techniques, and deploy the resulting systems via a set of partnerships and products.

- ### Safety Is a Science





We treat AI safety as a systematic science, conducting research, applying it to our products, feeding those insights back into our research, and regularly sharing what we learn with the world along the way.

- ### Interdisciplinary





Anthropic is a collaborative team of researchers, engineers, policy experts, business leaders and operators, who bring our experience from many different domains to our work.

- ### AI Companies are One Piece of a Big Puzzle





AI has the potential to fundamentally change how the world works. We view ourselves as just one piece of this evolving puzzle. We collaborate with civil society, government, academia, nonprofits and industry to promote safety industry-wide.


## The Team

We’re a team of researchers, engineers, policy experts and operational leaders, with experience spanning a variety of disciplines, all working together to build reliable and understandable AI systems.

- ![](https://cdn.prod.website-files.com/67ce28cfec624e2b733f8a52/681d62091e3b46dac5428888_research.webp)





### Research





We conduct frontier AI research across a variety of modalities, and explore novel and emerging safety research areas from interpretability to RL from human feedback to policy and societal impacts analysis.

- ![](https://cdn.prod.website-files.com/67ce28cfec624e2b733f8a52/681d620978e48d8861871f7d_policy.webp)





### Policy





We think about the impacts of our work and strive to communicate what we’re seeing at the frontier to policymakers and civil society in the US and abroad to help promote safe and reliable AI.

- ![](https://cdn.prod.website-files.com/67ce28cfec624e2b733f8a52/681d62094dad1585c366d2da_product.webp)





### Product





We translate our research into tangible, practical tools like Claude that benefit businesses, nonprofits and civil society groups and their clients and people around the globe.

- ![](https://cdn.prod.website-files.com/67ce28cfec624e2b733f8a52/67d3c039bc939998a7c43b37_work-with-anthropic.webp)





### Operations





Our people, finance, legal, and recruiting teams are the human engines that make Anthropic go. We’ve had previous careers at NASA, startups, and the armed forces and our diverse experiences help make Anthropic a great place to work (and we love plants!).


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