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This is a filtered view of Anthropic's research page focusing on interpretability; users should navigate to individual papers for substantive content, as the page itself is an index rather than a primary source.
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This is Anthropic's research hub filtered to their interpretability work, showcasing their portfolio of mechanistic interpretability studies aimed at understanding the internal computations of large language models. Anthropic has been a leading organization in interpretability research, producing foundational work on features, circuits, and superposition in neural networks.
Key Points
- •Central landing page for Anthropic's interpretability research portfolio, including mechanistic interpretability and related work
- •Anthropic has produced influential interpretability research including work on superposition, monosemanticity, and sparse autoencoders
- •Research aims to reverse-engineer neural network internals to understand how models represent and process information
- •Interpretability is framed as a core safety capability to detect deceptive alignment and verify model behavior
- •Links to individual papers and blog posts on topics like circuits, features, and scalable oversight techniques
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# 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) [Economic Research](https://www.anthropic.com/research/team/economic-research) [Interpretability](https://www.anthropic.com/research/team/interpretability) [Societal Impacts](https://www.anthropic.com/research/team/societal-impacts)
### 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.
[**What 81,000 people want from AI**](https://www.anthropic.com/81k-interviews)
[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)
[PolicyDec 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) [InterpretabilityOct 29, 2025\\
**Signs of introspection in large language models** \\
Can Claude access and report on its own internal states? This research finds evidence for a limited but functional ability to introspect—a step toward understanding what's actually happening inside these models.](https://www.anthropic.com/research/introspection) [AlignmentFeb 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) [AlignmentDec 18, 2024\\
**Alignment faking in large language models** \\
This paper provides the first empirical example of
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