AI construed as a brilliant friend...Claude's New Constitution (opens in new tab)

Colin Lewis, AI Research Scientist and Developer, has written a Substack essay on Anthropic Claude's New Constitution which deserves your careful reading. I pass it on in its entirety: Claude’s ConstitutionEarlier this year, Anthropic released an 84-page document titled , a text claiming to express and shape who Claude is. It is an extraordinary artifact. What is unusual is the object of address. The primary audience, Anthropic tells us, is the AI itself. One is tempted to read it with the na...