How do you teach an AI to be good? Anthropic just published its answer
- Jan 22
- 1 min read
Getting AI models to behave used to be a thorny mathematical problem. These days, it looks a bit more like raising a child.
That, at least, is according to Amanda Askell—a trained philosopher whose unique role within Anthropic is crafting the personality of Claude, the AI firm’s rival to ChatGPT.
“Imagine you suddenly realize that your six-year-old child is a kind of genius,” Askell says. “You have to be honest… If you try to bullshit them, they're going to see through it completely.”
Askell is describing the principles she used to craft Claude’s new “constitution,” a distinctive document that is a key part of Claude’s upbringing. On Wednesday, Anthropic published the constitution for the world to see.
Read the full story | TIME
