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&lt;p&gt;AI company Anthropic has a new, values-oriented “constitution” that they’re feeding their chatbot, Claude. Amanda Askell, the company’s in-house philosopher, joins Offline to talk about what it means to teach ethics to an LLM, whether the AI skews more human or more robot, and how she is training Claude to make its own judgements. Breaking with other AI models—and social media’s attention obsession—Amanda is trying to teach Claude &lt;em&gt;not &lt;/em&gt;to be sycophantic or engagement-driven, but a kind soul who may, one day, be considered sentient.&lt;/p&gt;&lt;p&gt;For a closed-captioned version of this episode, &lt;a href="https://youtu.be/_z59co8oIF4"&gt;click here&lt;/a&gt;. For a transcript of this episode, please email transcripts@crooked.com and include the name of the podcast.&lt;/p&gt;&lt;/div&gt;</description>

Offline with Jon Favreau

Offline with Jon Favreau

222: The Philosopher Teaching AI to Be Good

FEB 14, 202659 MIN
Offline with Jon Favreau

222: The Philosopher Teaching AI to Be Good

FEB 14, 202659 MIN

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<div> <p>AI company Anthropic has a new, values-oriented “constitution” that they’re feeding their chatbot, Claude. Amanda Askell, the company’s in-house philosopher, joins Offline to talk about what it means to teach ethics to an LLM, whether the AI skews more human or more robot, and how she is training Claude to make its own judgements. Breaking with other AI models—and social media’s attention obsession—Amanda is trying to teach Claude <em>not </em>to be sycophantic or engagement-driven, but a kind soul who may, one day, be considered sentient.</p><p>For a closed-captioned version of this episode, <a href="https://youtu.be/_z59co8oIF4">click here</a>. For a transcript of this episode, please email [email protected] and include the name of the podcast.</p></div>