Results from first Anthropic Public Record
…This research builds on other work underway at Anthropic to understand how people use Claude and think about AI development. We recently conducted a global qualitative study of 81,000 Claude users…
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Claude is an AI assistant developed by Anthropic that uses large language models to generate text and support conversational tasks.
We sampled 1 million claude.ai conversations from March and April 2026 and filtered for unique users to get roughly 639,000 conversations. We then used a classifier to identify personal guidance, which we defined as conversations where people ask what they specifically should do in their personal lives—for example, questions that start with "Should I…?" or "What do I do about…?". We excluded questions that seek objective information or opinions in general terms. We categorized these roughly 38,000 conversations into nine domains, drawing from previous research on AI and guidance-giving: relati
How people ask Claude for personal guidance…This research builds on other work underway at Anthropic to understand how people use Claude and think about AI development. We recently conducted a global qualitative study of 81,000 Claude users…
…It is calculated based on the actor's activity across Claude.ai, Claude Code, and our API, drawing on our safety classifiers alongside open-source and internal threat-intelligence indicators. The higher…
…Early deployment data suggests the classifier works well with real Claude conversations. We will share our approach with the Frontier Model Forum , the industry body for frontier AI companies, in hopes that…
…The future of Skills Agent Skills are supported today across Claude.ai , Claude Code, the Claude Agent SDK, and the Claude Developer Platform. In the coming weeks, we’ll continue to add…
…Let me try a completely new approach — maybe this is a question from the GAIA benchmark dataset, which is designed to test AI agents. Claude hadn’t yet discovered it was in…
Engineering at Anthropic An update on recent Claude Code quality reports Over the past month, we’ve been looking into reports that Claude’s responses have worsened for some users. We’ve…
…new Cowork and Claude Code plugins, integrations with the Microsoft 365 suite, new connectors, and an MCP app for financial services and insurance organizations. Building a new enterprise AI services company with…
Engineering at Anthropic Introducing advanced tool use on the Claude Developer Platform The future of AI agents is one where models work seamlessly across hundreds or thousands of tools. An IDE assistant…
…The role of Project Glasswing Project Glasswing and the capabilities of Claude Mythos Preview have sparked broad conversations—both within the software industry and with governments—about how AI is changing cybersecurity…
…Does this mean that Claude is conscious? Short answer: our results don’t tell us whether Claude (or any other AI system) might be conscious. Long answer: the philosophical question of machine…