The Interpretable AI playbook: What Anthropic’s research means for your enterprise LLM strategy

Anthropic CEO Dario Amodei made an urgent push in April for the need to understand how AI models think.

This comes at a crucial time. As Anthropic battles in global AI rankings, it’s important to note what sets it apart from other top AI labs. Since its founding in 2021, when seven OpenAI employees broke off over concerns about AI safety, Anthropic has built AI models that adhere to a set of human-valued principles, a system they call Constitutional AI. These principles ensure that models are “helpful, honest and harmless” and generally act in the best interests of society. At the same time, Anthropic’s research arm is diving deep to understand how its models think about the world, and why they produce helpful (and sometimes harmful) answers.

Anthropic’s flagship model, Claude 3.7 Sonnet, dominated coding benchmarks when it launched in February, proving that AI models can ...