Anthropic establishes "Anthropic Research Institute": Co-founder Jack Clark appointed as Head of Public Welfare, researching the impact of AI on employment, law, and the economy

According to ByteWorld, based on monitoring by 1M AI News, Anthropic announced the establishment of The Anthropic Institute, led by co-founder Jack Clark as the new Head of Public Benefit. The institute aims to openly share the risks and challenges encountered by Anthropic in developing cutting-edge AI systems. The institute consolidates three existing Anthropic teams: the Frontier Red Team, responsible for stress-testing AI systems; the Societal Impacts team, studying how AI is used in practice; and the Economic Research team, tracking AI’s impact on employment and macroeconomics. It is also forming new research directions in AI progress prediction and the interaction between AI and legal systems. The core mission of the institute is to leverage the information advantage exclusive to leading AI builders, transparently report on technological prospects, and establish two-way communication with industries and communities facing job displacement risks. Clark predicts that in the next two years, AI progress will be “much more intense than it is now,” and society must quickly address major issues such as employment reshaping, social resilience, AI value setting, and recursive self-improvement governance. Founding members include: Matt Botvinick, former senior research director at Google DeepMind and Princeton professor, focusing on AI and legal governance; Anton Korinek, economics professor at the University of Virginia, studying how transformative AI reshapes economic activity; and Zoë Hitzig, former socio-economic impact researcher at OpenAI, connecting economic research with model training. Anthropic is also expanding its Public Policy team and will open its first office in Washington this spring.