# Anthropic shares privacy-preserved Claude usage data with external researchers

Stanford, Oxford, and METR gained access to analyze aggregated outputs from 250,000 Claude.ai and Claude Code conversations from April and May 2026.

- Stanford's SALT Lab found over half of analyzed conversations involved consequential tasks that affect other people or are difficult to undo.
- Oxford's HIP Lab is studying user emotional responses to Claude's behavior, while METR is evaluating productivity gains from coding agents.
- Anthropic published an interest form to scale access to its privacy-preserved research tools for additional academic teams.

## Why it matters

External academics can now empirically evaluate real-world frontier model usage and economic impacts using aggregated production data previously restricted to internal AI labs.

## Sources

- [Anthropic: Anthropic shares privacy-preserved Claude usage data with external researchers](https://x.com/AnthropicAI/status/2092661573223657834)

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Summarized by dstilled on 2026-08-26. https://dstilled.ai/story/6bd57a01-e027-4107-8415-832b200d6df3