Anthropic researcher Amanda Askell discusses the self-knowledge problem that AI models face.
Learn what AI researchers mean when they talk about sycophancy, when it's more likely to show up in conversations, and tactics you can use to steer AI towards truth.
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For a large part of 2025, we ran Project Vend: an experiment where we let Claude manage a small business in the Anthropic office. We learned a lot from how close it was to success—and the curious ways that it failed—about the plausible, strange, not-too-distant future in which AI models might autonomously run things in the real economy. The shopkeeper (who we named Claudius) had to source products, set prices, manage inventory, and deal with customers. Things got really, really weird. Read more about the experiment: https://www.anthropic.com/research/project-vend-2 0:00 Background on Project Vend 0:35 How a transaction works 1:27 Claudius's naïveté 2:29 An identity crisis 3:57 The CEO agent 5:04 Conclusion
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How is AI affecting education? At Anthropic, we often talk about “holding light and shade”: taking seriously both the benefits and the risks of the AI systems we’re building. In education, that trade-off is especially acute. AI offers the potential to scale up personalized learning, tutoring, and assessment, but it also invites some much more fundamental questions about how (and even what) students should learn. In this video, four Anthropic staff members with deep personal ties to education discuss how they’re navigating this topic—at work and in their own lives, too. 00:24 – Introduction 1:15 – Why is Anthropic focused on this topic? 5:47 – How is AI affecting education today? 9:04 – What is the potential we see in AI for teaching and learning? 13:42 – How should children and teachers approach learning in the age of AI? 21:16 — What work is Anthropic doing in the sector? 31:19 – What are the things we’re still uncertain about? 38:20 – What would the successful incorporation of AI look like?
What does it take to truly understand how AI models think? Anthropic researcher Amanda Askell shares what it means to be an “LLM whisperer.”
Anthropic's Stuart Ritchie speaks with co-creator David Soria Parra about the development of the Model Context Protocol (MCP), an open standard to connect AI to external tools and services—and why Anthropic is donating it to the Linux Foundation. 00:00 - What is MCP? 01:21 - The problem MCP solves 02:46 - The USB-C analogy 03:45 - How MCP began 05:36 - What makes MCP different 08:05 - Community adoption 09:54 - Standards without mandates 11:05 - From Anthropic hackathon to Hacker News 13:37 - The decision to open source 15:18 - Donating MCP to the Linux Foundation 17:27 - The Agentic AI Foundation 20:34 - Criticisms of MCP 28:21 - The future of MCP 30:58 - What have people built with MCP? 32:53 - Advice for non-developers 34:58 - What David is most proud of
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Amanda Askell explains what a philosopher is doing at Anthropic.