Following our August signing of the White House's 'Pledge to America's Youth: Investing in AI Education', today we joined companies across the country at the White House's AI Education Taskforce event, deepening our commitment to helping America's students build essential skills to excel and lead with AI.
Anthropic has made three concrete commitments that will expand AI education access nationwide:
Anthropic is investing $1 million over three years to fund PicoCTF, Carnegie Mellon University's hands-on cybersecurity education program for middle and high school students. PicoCTF teaches critical problem-solving skills through interactive challenges, with a focus on reaching students from underserved communities where these programs can open doors to new career paths. This investment will help thousands more students develop the cybersecurity and critical thinking skills essential for the AI era.
We have signed up to support students and educators entering the White House's newly launched Presidential AI Challenge, a national challenge where students, educators, mentors, and community teams come together to solve problems in their communities using AI-powered solutions. Students and educators looking to participate in the Presidential AI Challenge can get started by clicking here.
Anthropic is also developing and launching AI Fluency curriculum for instructors who teach K-12 and higher education. Building on our existing courses, this comprehensive curriculum will help educators nationwide integrate AI thoughtfully into their classrooms. Critically, this curriculum is Creative Commons licensed -- freely available for anyone to use, modify, and share -- and designed to work with any AI system, ensuring equitable access regardless of school resources.
All of these commitments build on the efforts we have already undertaken to ensure that students and educators across the country are harnessing and benefitting from AI.
Through partnerships with leading education platforms, we're seeing how AI is helping to transform learning for millions of students and educators across America:
Beyond helping students learn with AI, we're helping them build with it. Claude for Education serves 100,000+ students and faculty, including USF Law's first fully AI-integrated curriculum and Northeastern's 13-campus adoption. Additionally, Claude Builder Clubs are launching in over 60 U.S. universities this fall, empowering students to launch real startups and build tools that solve problems in their communities.
How AI enters classrooms now will shape students' relationship with technology and learning for years to come which is why ground our education initiatives in real-world evidence. We recently analyzed over one million university student conversations and 74,000 educator conversations to understand how AI is actually being used in classrooms. Our research revealed that university students primarily use AI for complex tasks like creating and analyzing (70% of usage), while educators use it most for curriculum development (57%) and are building custom classroom tools with Claude Artifacts -- from interactive simulations to grading rubrics.
These findings directly shape our products: we designed Learning Mode in Claude to emphasize critical thinking in students, and we developed our AI Fluency curriculum to match how educators really integrate these tools into teaching. By studying usage patterns, we ensure our education tools enhance rather than compromise learning.
Our participation in today's White House AI Education Taskforce meeting demonstrates our commitment to working alongside government and industry partners to ensure America's students and educators are prepared for an AI-powered future. Through initiatives like the White House Pledge to America's Youth: Investing in AI Education, we'll continue to invest in America's next generation of leaders, innovators, and problem-solvers. Learn more about our education work at anthropic.com/education.