Share of $5 Million for Research into AI & Wellbeing – Anthropic

The Anthropic Wellbeing Research Grants Programme is providing $5 million in funding for independent research developing better ways to evaluate how AI systems affect people's wellbeing. Successful grantees will receive direct funding alongside access to Anthropic's AI models and technical support.

Here’s what you can expect:

• $5 million available across the grant programme

• Direct research funding for successful applicants

• Access to Anthropic's AI models

• Technical support from Anthropic

• Funding to develop open-source AI wellbeing evaluations and benchmarks

• Research examining both potential harms and appropriate safeguards

• Support for evaluations reflecting realistic, multi-turn AI conversations

• Projects should involve relevant clinical and subject-matter expertise

• Evaluation methods should clearly define what is being measured and validate results against human experts

• Successful research will remain independent and be published openly so other researchers and developers can use it.

Who can apply?

The programme is aimed at independent researchers and experts capable of developing rigorous AI wellbeing evaluations. Anthropic specifically highlights the value of expertise from clinicians, psychologists, methodologists and other relevant specialists.

Strong proposals should demonstrate a clear approach to measuring wellbeing, incorporate relevant expert input, test both harmful behaviour and excessive refusal/caution, represent realistic AI interactions and use robust methods for validating evaluation results.

Deadline: 21 September 2026.