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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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# Making AI systems you can rely on

Anthropic is an AI safety and research company. We build reliable, interpretable, and steerable AI systems.

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[Join us](https://www.anthropic.com/jobs)

## 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.

![Team members at whiteboard](https://www.anthropic.com/_next/image?url=https%3A%2F%2Fwww-cdn.anthropic.com%2Fimages%2F4zrzovbb%2Fwebsite%2F1536d2a2d317fb4714ab907cb5b103379ebb0be0-1152x864.jpg&w=3840&q=75)

### 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.

![Team members collaborating in meeting room](https://www.anthropic.com/_next/image?url=https%3A%2F%2Fwww-cdn.anthropic.com%2Fimages%2F4zrzovbb%2Fwebsite%2F49810dc8aa0de730866f49a164df84646226e880-1152x864.jpg&w=3840&q=75)

### 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.

![Team member working on laptop with headphones beside](https://www.anthropic.com/_next/image?url=https%3A%2F%2Fwww-cdn.anthropic.com%2Fimages%2F4zrzovbb%2Fwebsite%2F3e08b5548ea51c9d5928d31739aca51344ecb400-1152x864.jpg&w=3840&q=75)

### 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.

![Team members in open, sunlit office](https://www.anthropic.com/_next/image?url=https%3A%2F%2Fwww-cdn.anthrop

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