The Soul Document 2.0

Description: There's a philosopher at Anthropic whose job is to decide what kind of entity Claude should be. Her name is Amanda Askell, and she describes her work like raising a genius child you can't afford to bullshit. This week, Anthropic published the document she's been crafting — 23,000 words explaining to Claude who it is, how it should behave, and why. Today: what's in it, what changed, and why an AI now has a constitution it's expected to understand.In this episode:Amanda Askell and the "Claude whisperer" approachThe four-tier value hierarchy: safe, ethical, compliant, helpfulWhy rules backfire and reasons might workThe passage where Claude is told to disobey — even AnthropicMoral patients and the model welfare teamWhat the Hacker News skeptics got right (and wrong)📰 Newsletter: aboutclaudeai.substack.com 🐦 X: @_about_claude Hosted on Acast. See acast.com/privacy for more information.