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A profile of Amanda Askell, Anthropic's resident philosopher, who is learning Claude's reasoning patterns in a bid to endow the chatbot with a sense of morality

Anthropic has entrusted Amanda Askell to endow its chatbot, Claude, with a sense of right and wrong.  —  Amanda Askell knew from the age of 14 that she wanted to teach philosophy.

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  • @hypervisible.blacksky.app @hypervisible.blacksky.app on bluesky
    “She compares her work to the efforts of a parent raising a child.  She's training Claude to detect the difference between right and wrong while imbuing it with unique personality traits.”
  • @robinjames Robin James on bluesky
    Technically AI can't have morals (which are conventions, norms) or ethics (principled values) as (1) it isn't part of society and (2) can't be held accountable for itself  —  www.wsj.com/tech/ai/anth...
  • @teknium @teknium on x
    Glad one person may control the moral and ethical principles the whole world may be subjected to enforcement of if anthropic makes asi
  • @mark_k Mark Kretschmann on x
    “Anthropic has entrusted Amanda Askell to endow its AI chatbot, Claude, with a sense of right and wrong” ⚠️ Amanda Askell is the wife of William MacAskill, founder of the infamous “Effective Altruism” cult. What could possibly go wrong, right? 🤨
  • @nummanali Numman Ali on x
    This is news to me Claude is being taught its morals, from Amanda, who is from Scotland 🏴󠁧󠁢󠁳󠁣󠁴󠁿 She grew up only 30 minutes from where I am I feel immense pride and a renewed fervour - you can change the world no matter where you are from Thank you @AmandaAskell, I'm inspired 🙏 […