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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.
Anthropic has published a constitution for its AI model, Claude, detailing the values and behaviors it should embody. This document serves as a guiding framework for Claude's training and decision-making processes, focusing on safety, ethics, and helpfulness.
- Anthropic replaced Claude's old list of standalone principles with a constitution that explains the reasoning behind behaviors, not just rules to follow
- Claude is instructed to prioritize being safe, then ethical, then compliant with Anthropic's guidelines, then genuinely helpful, in that order when conflicts arise
- The document is released under CC0 1.0, so anyone can use it freely
- Anthropic uses the constitution to generate synthetic training data that shapes Claude's judgment during actual training stages