Claude’s Strange Constitution Luiza Jarovsky, a PhD in AI Governance, expresses shock at Anthropic’s new Claude constitution, finding its anthropomorphism and claims about Claude’s “wellbeing” to be pretentious and legally inaccurate. She suspects Anthropic is strategically using these controversial theories of AI personality to establish a weaker accountability framework for AI companies, which she believes is a poor governance strategy that may backfire.

• Anthropic launched a new constitution for Claude, which Luiza Jarovsky was unaware existed.
• The document uses anthropomorphism and presents controversial, legally inaccurate theories about AI personality and its social role.
• Jarovsky questions why Anthropic, known for responsible AI principles and legal compliance, would publish a document that risks its reputation and could fuel ‘AGI’ and ‘superintelligence’ rumors.
• She believes there is a strategic reason behind the publication, suggesting it aims to advance unpopular AI personality theories to support a weaker accountability framework for AI companies.
• These theories, Jarovsky argues, fail to account for human rights, values, and societies and could create an exceptionalist system for AI models and companies.
• She predicts this approach will backfire for Anthropic from an AI governance perspective. Continue reading https://www.luizasnewsletter.com/p/claudes-strange-constitution