Anthropic’s new Claude ‘constitution’: be helpful and honest, and don’t destroy humanity

Anthropic is overhauling Claude's so-called "soul doc."

The caller missive is simply a 57-page papers titled "Claude's Constitution," which details "Anthropic's intentions for the model's values and behavior," aimed not astatine extracurricular readers but the exemplary itself. The papers is designed to spell retired Claude's "ethical character" and "core identity," including however it should equilibrium conflicting values and high-stakes situations.

Where the previous constitution, published successful May 2023, was mostly a database of guidelines, Anthropic present says it's important for AI models to "understand why we privation them to behave successful definite ways alternatively than conscionable specifying w …

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