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Anthropic grants external researchers access to Claude usage data for AI impact studies

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Anthropic has launched a new initiative to allow external researchers access to privacy-preserved Claude usage data for AI impact studies. Three research groups—Stanford's Social and Language Technologies lab, Oxford's Human Information Processing Lab, and METR—have already conducted studies using this data. These studies analyzed over 250,000 conversations from April to May 2026, focusing on aspects like task criticality in human-AI collaboration and productivity gains from coding agents. AI

IMPACT Enables broader, independent research into AI's real-world effects and potential risks.

RANK_REASON Anthropic is enabling external researchers to study AI impacts using their data, which is a research milestone.

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Anthropic grants external researchers access to Claude usage data for AI impact studies

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COVERAGE [5]

  1. X — Anthropic TIER_1 English(EN) · AnthropicAI ·

    Now, we want to scale this research model.

    Now, we want to scale this research model. If you're a researcher and would like access to our tools to pursue work you can't otherwise do today, we’d like to hear from you. You can express interest here: https://t.co/kz0AspgzD1

  2. X — Anthropic TIER_1 English(EN) · AnthropicAI ·

    The other two studies are ongoing: HIP Lab is studying how Claude's behavior relates to how people feel when using AI, while METR is estimating real-world produ

    The other two studies are ongoing: HIP Lab is studying how Claude's behavior relates to how people feel when using AI, while METR is estimating real-world productivity gains from coding agents. We'll share more from both soon.

  3. X — Anthropic TIER_1 English(EN) · AnthropicAI ·

    The SALT Lab studied how people collaborate with AI. They found that over half of these conversations involved consequential tasks—work that affects other peopl

    The SALT Lab studied how people collaborate with AI. They found that over half of these conversations involved consequential tasks—work that affects other people or is hard to undo. Read their full writeup here: https://t.co/bZ7Qu5nZjb

  4. X — Anthropic TIER_1 English(EN) · AnthropicAI ·

    Three research groups—Stanford’s Social and Language Technologies lab, Oxford’s Human Information Processing Lab, and METR—designed independent studies to analy

    Three research groups—Stanford’s Social and Language Technologies lab, Oxford’s Human Information Processing Lab, and METR—designed independent studies to analyze the aggregated outputs from 250,000 https://t.co/SVzAB0InAs or Claude Code conversations between April and May 2026.

  5. X — Anthropic TIER_1 English(EN) · AnthropicAI ·

    For the first time, we’ve given external researchers a way to study AI’s impacts using real, privacy-preserved Claude usage data. To date, this work has only be

    For the first time, we’ve given external researchers a way to study AI’s impacts using real, privacy-preserved Claude usage data. To date, this work has only been possible within AI labs. We can’t tell the whole story alone, so we opened up our tools. https://t.co/suLJcARAu1

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