A philosopher is at the forefront of shaping advanced AI like Anthropic's Claude, guiding its ethical behaviour. Amanda ...

Amanda Askell, a Scottish academic-turned-AI researcher, leads the personality alignment team at Anthropic, the $350 billion AI company behind the chatbot Claude. Her job, as the Wall Street Journal ...

I’m dedicating this week’s newsletter to a conversation I had with the main author of Anthropic’s new and improved “constitution,” the document it uses to govern the outputs of its models and its ...

Chatbots don’t have mothers, but if they did, Claude’s would be Amanda Askell. She’s an in-house philosopher at the AI company Anthropic, and she wrote most of the document that tells Claude what sort ...

Can AI feel anything at all? Anthropic's in-house philosopher says the answer isn't settled. Amanda Askell, who works on shaping Claude's behavior, said in an episode of the "Hard Fork" podcast ...

Amanda Askell’s nickname at Anthropic, the AI firm where she works, is the “Claude whisperer.” Anthropic’s chatbot, Claude, has a reputation in the industry for being friendly, curious, and maybe a ...

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American artificial intelligence company Anthropic – which has developed the family of large language models named Claude – has created a unique position in their firm. Amanda Askell says there is a ...

Amanda Askell, the resident philosopher at Anthropic, spends her days learning Claude’s reasoning patterns and talking to the AI model. (Photo: Lindsay Ellary for WSJ Magazine) Amanda Askell knew from ...

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