26 August 2026
Anthropic funds safety research on AI conversation risks
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- Anthropic, the company behind Claude chatbot, is offering 5 million dollars in grants for independent researchers studying AI safety.
- The research will focus on multi-turn conversational risks, meaning problems that develop over long back-and-forth exchanges with AI systems.
- Grant recipients will specifically examine emotional dependency and mental health contexts, areas where extended AI conversations might cause harm.
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Anthropic introduced a 5 million dollar grant program for independent researchers to benchmark multi-turn conversational risks, specifically around emotional dependency and mental health context.