SAN FRANCISCO — Anthropic, a public-benefit corporation, unveiled a new offering called Claude Science. The product is designed for biologists and pharmaceutical companies. Claude is a large language model developed by Anthropic.

Dario Amodei, CEO and co-founder of Anthropic, addressed the pace of technological development. "I don't think that today we can make progress at a rate of ten years per year for a number of reasons," Amodei stated. In 2024, Amodei authored an essay titled "Machines of Loving Grace."

Researchers at Anthropic conducted a randomized controlled trial involving 52 software engineers. In this study, software engineers who used an AI assistant achieved an average quiz score of 50%, while those who did not use an AI assistant achieved an average score of 67%. The study was posted on the preprint server arXiv.

A survey of U.S. health-care workers published in July 2026 found that 70% of nurses and 77% of physicians expressed worry about losing skills due to over-reliance on AI systems. Similarly, a study published in The Lancet Gastroenterology and Hepatology in October 2025 examined physicians specializing in endoscopy in Poland. Before the introduction of an AI tool, specialists in this study detected at least one adenoma in 28.4% of colonoscopies. After the AI tool's introduction, the adenoma detection rate for colonoscopies performed without AI assistance decreased to 22.4%.

Yuichi Mori, a physician-researcher at the University of Oslo, addressed the issue of skill loss. "There is no established solution against deskilling right now," Mori stated. He added, "It should be a very hot research topic in the next decade." Kevin Crowston, an information scientist at Syracuse University in New York, noted the potential impact on learning. "Just being aware that this phenomenon exists hopefully provokes some self-reflection about which skills people want to maintain and which they're willing to outsource to AI tools," Crowston stated. He further explained, "People can perform at a pretty high level, because they're basically borrowing skills from the AI, but they are not developing those skills themselves."