Expanding the conversation about frontier AI

Expanding the conversation about frontier AI

By @AnthropicAI
Publication Date: 2026-05-19 12:00:00

At Anthropic, we want to build AI systems that advance humanity and act for the good of the world. To do this, we need to engage with those who see the world from different perspectives.

In recent months we have organized dialogues with groups whose work and traditions address AI issues. Our first round of discussions took place with wisdom traditions—including scholars, clergy, philosophers, and ethicists from more than fifteen religious and cross-cultural groups—and we look forward to engaging with a broader range of people in the future.

Why we do this

Building safe, useful AI models requires extensive technical work in the areas of targeting, interpretability, safeguards, assessments, and more. But this work is not done in a vacuum and AI is not used either. AI is already affecting many people and the questions it raises benefit from different perspectives.

We think carefully about what a prosperous future might look like in a world…