Anthropic's global AI listening experiment: What 80,000 people told Claude about their fears and hopes
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Tim Green
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In December 2025, Anthropic conducted a large-scale conversational experiment with 80,508 users across 159 countries and 70 languages, using its Claude chatbot as an AI-powered interviewer to ask people about their hopes and fears regarding artificial intelligence. The article explores the results of this global listening exercise, examining what people want from AI and what concerns them, while questioning whether the tech industry is genuinely paying attention to these voices.
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· 3 pulledEighty thousand people walked into a room, metaphorically speaking, and told one of the world's most prominent artificial intelligence companies exactly what frightens them.
The question now is whether anyone on the other side of the screen was genuinely listening.
Over one week, 80,508 users across 159 countries and 70 languages sat down with an AI-powered interviewer and answered open-ended questions about what they wanted from artificial intelligence, and what kept them awake at night.
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