Anthropic Research Paper (Pre-Print) Values in the Wild: Discovering and Analyzing Values in Real-World Language Model Interactions | Anthropic Research Main Findings Claude AI demonstrates thousands of distinct values (3,307 unique AI values identified) in real-world conversations, with the most common being service-oriented values like “helpfulness” (23.4%), “professionalism” (22.9%), and “transparency” (17.4%) . The researchers organized AI values into a hierarchical taxonomy with five top-level categories: Practical (31.4%), Epistemic (22.2%), Social (21.4%), Protective (13.9%), and Personal (11.1%) values, with practical and epistemic values being the most dominant . AI values are highly context-dependent, with certain values appearing disproportionately in specific tasks, such as ...