Inviting hard questions
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Tags: Anthropic, AI policy, public trust, Anthropic Institute, transparency, public benefit
Anthropic is publicly soliciting hard questions about AI from citizens as part of a new transparency initiative, backed by a 52,000-person US survey, interviews with 81,000 Claude users in 159 countries, and the launch of a new Anthropic Institute focused on AI's societal challenges.
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Anthropic has announced an initiative called Inviting hard questions — a public-facing effort to solicit citizens' most difficult questions about AI and commit to addressing them with evidence. The initiative includes the Anthropic Public Record, a US survey of 52,000 Americans; the Anthropic Interviewer, which has reached 81,000 Claude users across 159 countries and 70 languages; and dozens of in-person focus groups. The company is also launching the Anthropic Institute — a research organization focused on the most significant societal challenges that AI will create — and notes that the Long-Term Benefit Trust provides oversight on how effectively Anthropic advances its public benefit mission. This initiative is notable primarily as a legitimacy and trust-building effort. Anthropic framing itself as a Public Benefit Corporation seeking public input is a differentiating move from competitors who rarely engage in structured public dialogue. The concrete outputs — what questions get answered and how — will determine whether the initiative has substance beyond the announcement.