Anthropic opens a $5 million grant programme for independent AI-wellbeing evaluations
Anthropic launched a $5 million grant programme offering funding, model access, and technical support for independent teams building open-source evaluations of AI's effects on user wellbeing. It prioritizes explicit pass-fail definitions, clinical and subject-matter validation, both overcompliance and under-protection, multi-turn scenarios, and graders validated against experts.
Why it matters: Companionship, emotional-support, and crisis interactions cannot be assessed reliably from isolated responses. Public, expert-validated, multi-turn evaluations could improve the evidence available to model providers, researchers, product teams, and auditors…