LSE is now offering Anthropic’s ‘Claude for Education’ AI technology, to all students and academic staff free of charge. Claude is an educationally focused AI tool that can help with tasks such as summarising complex information, creating personalised study plans, and assisting with data analysis and visualisation.
Claude should be used in accordance with School-wide guidance on generative AI and any specific guidance set out by your programme, course or department.
LSE students and academic staff can request access to Claude by completing this form.
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By partnering with Anthropic, LSE is one of a small number of universities in the UK to offer their students and academic staff free access to Claude. This initiative ensures equity by equipping students with essential tools and skills for success in an AI-transformed world, while advancing responsible AI deployment across higher education and society globally.
Claude for Education provides academic institutions with secure, reliable AI access for their entire community through an intuitive chat interface with enterprise-grade security and privacy controls.
A key factor in LSE's decision to partner with Anthropic is their commitment to responsible use and AI safety. The company guarantees that no student or staff-submitted data will be used to train their models.
However, to ensure you are using Claude safely and responsibly, please do not share any personal, operational, or sensitive data via the platform.
Support for Claude can be found on the DSL Learning Hub:
The DSL also provides additional training around generative AI and effective collaboration with AI tools:
Our partnership with Anthropic has been extended through to May 2027.
Claude Code is not a feature we currently have under our contract with Anthropic.
You can still use Claude to get help with your coding; it just needs to be done through the app or website rather than your terminal or IDE.