Co-Founder Jack Clark to Lead Anthropic’s New AI Institute

Led by co-founder Jack Clark, the new interdisciplinary institute consolidates Anthropic’s red teaming, societal impacts, and economic research teams, and is opening a Washington DC office this spring.

Anthropic has launched The Anthropic Institute, a new research body focused on the societal, economic, and legal challenges that powerful AI systems will create. The Institute is led by co-founder Jack Clark, who takes on a new role as Anthropic’s Head of Public Benefit. It brings together three existing Anthropic research teams, the Frontier Red Team, which stress-tests AI systems at the outermost limits of their capabilities; the Societal Impacts team, which studies how AI is being used in the real world; and the Economic Research team, which tracks AI’s effects on jobs and the broader economy.

The announcement comes as Anthropic says it expects the next two years to bring AI progress more dramatic than anything seen in the company’s first five. In that period, models have already reached the point where they can discover severe cybersecurity vulnerabilities, take on a wide range of real work tasks, and begin to accelerate the pace of AI development itself. The Institute’s goal, as Anthropic describes it, is to report candidly on what the company is learning as it builds frontier systems, and to engage with workers, industries, and communities grappling with displacement and uncertainty.

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Three founding hires have been announced. Matt Botvinick, a Resident Fellow at Yale Law School and previously Senior Director of Research at Google DeepMind and Professor of Neural Computation at Princeton, joins to lead the Institute’s work on AI and the rule of law. Anton Korinek, a Professor of Economics at the University of Virginia on leave, joins the Economic Research team to study how transformative AI could reshape the nature of economic activity. Zoë Hitzig, who previously studied AI’s social and economic impacts at OpenAI, joins to connect the economics work to model training and development.

Alongside the Institute, Anthropic is expanding its Public Policy organisation. Sarah Heck, who joined Anthropic as Head of External Affairs, previously Head of Entrepreneurship at Stripe and a global entrepreneurship and public diplomacy policy lead at the White House National Security Council, will lead the team as Head of Public Policy. Anthropic is opening its first Washington DC office this spring and says it is expanding its global policy footprint. The Institute is also actively hiring analytical staff.

Source: Anthropic official announcement (anthropic.com/news/the-anthropic-institute), March 11, 2026. All facts reproduced directly from the primary source. No additional claims added.

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