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The article discusses the new version of Claude's constitution, which outlines explicit values for AI behavior. It explains how Constitutional AI improves upon traditional human feedback by using AI-generated principles to ensure safer and more transparent model outputs. The principles aim to address ethical concerns while allowing for continuous improvement.
- Constitutional AI replaces most human feedback with AI self-critique against a written constitution, then AI-generated reinforcement learning for harmlessness, cutting the need for people to review toxic content.
- Claude trained this way got better at handling adversarial prompts without becoming less helpful, and the approach makes the values steering the model's outputs more transparent.
- The constitution draws on sources like the UN Declaration of Human Rights and other labs' safety practices, but Anthropic admits it's still skewed toward Western viewpoints and remains a work in progress shaped by trial and error.