Scaling Laws: Claude's Constitution, with Amanda Askell

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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 principal hierarchy of Anthropic, operators, and users; the decision to ground the constitution in…