AI is still a curiosity for many. There’s enthusiasm for what it can do. And also fear or for some, scepticism, about what it can do. Anthropic has taken it on itself to answer the questions that curiosity is raising. A campaign by Mother presents that purpose.

The initiative, and the campaign, There’s hope in hard questions, work to understand people’s views and questions on a variety of AI-related topics, while Anthropic charts its progress toward its public benefit goals. Why? Anthropic wants the world to know that it is a Public Benefit Corporation. Its mission is to secure the benefits of advanced AI models and mitigate their risks.

Behind the campaign are real questions. Anthropic asked thousands of people for their views on AI and began the Anthropic Public Record, a public survey that, in its first round, asked 52,000 Americans to set out their biggest hopes and concerns about this technology. The company surveyed 81,000 Claude users across 159 countries and 70 languages through its Anthropic Interviewer, and conducted dozens of in-person focus groups and held sessions with groups whose work and traditions bear on the questions raised by AI. It also studied the use of Claude through anonymised, real-world data and created a research effort, the Anthropic Institute, to confront the most significant challenges that AI will pose to society.

Now, the Mother campaign, that extends the company’s Keep Thinking brand platform, is asking all people to send their hardest questions on AI. Anthropic will track and report publicly the specific actions it is taking to address those questions – and even where it might fall short of its stated goals.

See some of the questions others are asking, and share your own, on the hard questions website.

Explore Anthropic’s work in hard questions from here.