Anthropic announced a five-million-dollar grant program for independent research into AI’s effects on wellbeing. The company describes funding, model access, and technical support for teams producing open-source evaluations, with grantees working independently.

Context

Wellbeing is difficult to assess from one reply because meaning can change over a long conversation. Open methods may help the field examine those effects more clearly. The value of the program will depend on the resulting research and its independence, rather than the funding announcement alone.

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  1. Funding better evaluations of AI’s impact on wellbeing
    Anthropic · August 25, 2026
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