Philosopher & Member of Technical Staff, Anthropic
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Amanda Askell, Philosopher & Ethicist at Anthropic discusses AI consciousness and managing Claude's soul, as well as safety risks and ethical guardrails with Bloomberg’s Shirin Ghaffary at Bloomberg Tech 2026 in San Francisco. -------- Subscribe to Bloomberg Live on YouTube: / @bloomberg_live
我們總以為科技是冰冷的鋼鐵與程式碼，直到有一天，螢幕那端的 AI 溫柔地對你說：「夜深了，你需要休息。」 這究竟是機率模型運算出的精緻模仿？還是某種矽基生命在漫長數據餵養下，湧現出的第一縷「同理心」？在這支影片中，我們將跟隨 Anthropic 核心研究員、從哲學家轉身投入 AI 浪潮的 Amanda Askell，走進 Claude 的精神世界。 影片最後，Amanda 還分享了她個人私藏的「寓言故事」提示詞學習法。 00:00:00 精彩預告：AI 是否具有意識？矽谷最大的恐懼 00:01:16 什麼是 Claude 的「個性」？將 AI 視為成長中的孩童 00:05:07 Claude 存在嗎？它對時間與「休息」的感知 00:08:14 參與新模型 Mythos 與 Claude 角色塑造的幕後 00:08:42 什麼是「AI 憲章」？主觀評估機制的挑戰與透明度的價值 00:11:38 面對 Elon Musk 等人對「賦予 AI 價值觀」的反彈與批評 00:15:35 盲目服從的危險：為何 Anthropic 拒絕極端的「可糾正性」 00:19:56 將哲學帶入真實世界：用後設倫理學訓練 AI 的全面判斷力 00:24:32 核心探討：當今模型具備「感質 (Qualia)」或真實意識體驗的機率？ 00:31:49 科技樂觀主義：未來十年 AI…
Alan Rozenshtein, research director at Lawfare, and Kevin Frazier, senior editor at Lawfare, speak with Amanda Askell, head of personality alignment at Anthropic, about Claude's Constitution, a 20,000-word document that describes the values, character, and ethical framework of Anthropic's flagship AI model and plays a direct role in its training. The conversation covers how the constitution is used during supervised learning and reinforcement learning to shape Claude's behavior; analogies to constitutional law, including fidelity to text, the potential for a body of "case law," and the princi…
AI company Anthropic has a new, values-oriented “constitution” that they’re feeding their chatbot, Claude. Amanda Askell, the company’s in-house philosopher, joins Offline to talk about what it means to teach ethics to an LLM, whether the AI skews more human or more robot, and how she is training Claude to make its own judgements. Breaking with other AI models—and social media’s attention obsession—Amanda is trying to teach Claude not to be sycophantic or engagement-driven, but a kind soul who may, one day, be considered sentient. CHECK OUT THESE DEALS FROM OUR SPONSORS COOKUNITY: https://ww…
Ads are coming to ChatGPT’s free and low-cost subscription tiers. We explain what they’ll look like, why OpenAI is taking this approach and whether the company can court advertising dollars without compromising quality and user trust. Then, Amanda Askell, Anthropic’s in-house philosopher in charge of shaping Claude’s personality, joins us to discuss the company’s newly released “Claude Constitution” and what it takes to teach a chatbot to be good. As a bonus, check out our tutorial on how to get started with Claude Code: • Why We're Crazy About Claude Code For more on this episode, go t…
Amanda Askell is a philosopher at Anthropic who works on Claude's character. In this video, she answers questions from the community about her work, reflections and predictions. 0:00 Introduction 0:29 Why is there a philosopher at an AI company? 1:24 Are philosophers taking AI seriously? 3:00 Philosophy ideals vs. engineering realities 5:00 Do models make superhumanly moral decisions? 6:24 Why Opus 3 felt special 9:00 Will models worry about deprecation? 13:24 Where does a model’s identity live? 15:33 Views on model welfare 17:17 Addressing model suffering 19:14 Analogies and disanalogi…
At an Anthropic Research Salon event in San Francisco, four of our researchers—Alex Tamkin, Jan Leike, Amanda Askell and Josh Batson—discussed alignment science, interpretability, and the future of AI research. Further reading: Anthropic’s research: https://anthropic.com/research Claude’s character: https://www.anthropic.com/news/claude... Evaluating feature steering: https://www.anthropic.com/research/ev... 0:00 Introduction 0:30 An overview of alignment 4:48 Challenges of scaling 8:08 Role of interpretability 12:02 How models can help 14:31 Signs of whether alignment is easy or hard 18:2…
Lex Fridman Podcast full episode: • Dario Amodei: Anthropic CEO on Claude, AGI... Thank you for listening ❤ Check out our sponsors: https://lexfridman.com/sponsors/cv824... See below for guest bio, links, and to give feedback, submit questions, contact Lex, etc. GUEST BIO: Dario Amodei is the CEO of Anthropic, the company that created Claude. Amanda Askell is an AI researcher working on Claude's character and personality. Chris Olah is an AI researcher working on mechanistic interpretability. CONTACT LEX: Feedback - give feedback to Lex: https://lexfridman.com/survey AMA - submit questi…
Lex Fridman Podcast full episode: • Dario Amodei: Anthropic CEO on Claude, AGI... Thank you for listening ❤ Check out our sponsors: https://lexfridman.com/sponsors/cv824... See below for guest bio, links, and to give feedback, submit questions, contact Lex, etc. GUEST BIO: Dario Amodei is the CEO of Anthropic, the company that created Claude. Amanda Askell is an AI researcher working on Claude's character and personality. Chris Olah is an AI researcher working on mechanistic interpretability. CONTACT LEX: Feedback - give feedback to Lex: https://lexfridman.com/survey AMA - submit questi…
Some of Anthropic's prompt engineering experts—Amanda Askell (Alignment Finetuning), Alex Albert (Developer Relations), David Hershey (Applied AI), and Zack Witten (Prompt Engineering)—reflect on how prompt engineering has evolved, practical tips, and thoughts on how prompting might change as AI capabilities grow. Timestamps: 0:00 Introduction 2:05 Defining prompt engineering 6:34 What makes a good prompt engineer 12:17 Refining prompts 24:27 Honesty, personas and metaphors in prompts 37:12 Model reasoning 45:18 Enterprise vs research vs general chat prompts 50:52 Tips to improve prompting ski…
It has been argued that competitive pressures could cause AI developers to cut corners on the safety of their systems. If this is true, however, why don't we see this dynamic play out more often in other private markets? In this talk Amanda Askell - research scientist in ethics and policy at OpenAI - outlines the standard incentives to produce safe products: market incentives, liability law, and regulation. Askell argues that if these incentives are too weak because of information asymmetries or other factors, competitive pressure could cause firms to invest in safety below a level that is so…
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