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Using AI to increase the pace of scientific progress is a core part of Anthropic’s mission. Here, we’ll explore what this really looks like. We’ll share work happening inside and outside Anthropic, our collaborations with external researchers and labs, and practical workflows for scientists using AI in their research.

In this guest post, Prof. Matthew Schwartz describes what happened when he stopped fighting Claude and allowed Claude to find “Claude-shaped” problems. This led him to build BootLoops, a toolkit for exact calculations in quantitative science. Because similar calculations often turn up across very disparate areas of science, Claude found connections to ecology, population genetics, and a dozen other fields. These connections were often technically correct but scientifically unremarkable at first, so Schwartz worked with domain experts to steer BootLoops toward questions those fields care about.

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