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- Anthropic is conducting a new study using Anthropic Interviewer to collect user experiences with AI, running from September 29 to October 6, 2026, and open to Free, Pro, and Max users on Claude and Claude Code with accounts at least two weeks old.
- Anthropic allows participants to choose whether to make their full interview public, a shift from its December 2025 study where only aggregated results and select quotes were shared.
- Anthropic states that public interviews will be published in full, including the participant’s country, but not account details like name or email, and will not be edited before release.
- Anthropic warns that once an interview is public, it cannot fully retract it, as others may have saved copies, and advises users not to share identifying details due to re-identification risks demonstrated by prior research.
- Anthropic will use the data to inform its Societal Impacts and Economics research, model development, and product decisions, with findings shared publicly even for non-public interviews via aggregated or de-identified analysis.
Why it matters: By publishing raw, unedited interviews, Anthropic enables independent scrutiny of public sentiment toward AI, creating a transparent record that could pressure developers to align with user expectations. The opt-in public archive includes geotagged perspectives from 2026—a specific moment when frontier AI capabilities and misuse risks are rapidly escalating.
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