Anthropic consults law firms on AI agent negotiation norms

Anthropic is working with law firms to set negotiation norms for AI agents that haggle over prices, resolve complaints or amend contracts for users, and is hiring lawyers and humanities scholars as 'Conceptual Reasoning Fellows' to improve Claude where training data is scarce.

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