Claude is becoming more agentic. Amanda Askell is thinking through what that means (opens in new tab)

Amanda Askell spends her days thinking about how to ensure Claude, Anthropic’s AI chatbot, operates with a sense of morality. As AI models move from chatbots toward agents that can complete tasks on their own, the decisions these models make stand to become far more consequential. Askell, a member of the technical staff at Anthropic, sits at the center of the company’s effort to give Claude an ethical compass, a responsibility that grows as the system’s capabilities expand. “As models are mor...