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A philosophy professor writes in sharing some news about the “character” and “well-being” of Anthropic’s LLM, Claude, noting how philosophers have been involved with recent developments. The following is from an email from Gus Skorburg, associate professor of philosophy at the University of Guelph: I wanted to share some stuff related to Anthropic’s Claude model that I haven’t seen widely discussed among philosophers, that I thought you might be interested to share on Daily Nous. First, I think it is worth noting that a philosophy PhD, Amanda Askell, is head of “character training” at Anthropic. She did an interview on Lex Fridman’s podcast a few months back (transcript here). Here is one insightful blurb from the interview, but I do think the whole segment is worth reading: Lex Fridman (02:49:10) So one of the things that you’re an expert in and you do is creating and crafting Claude’s character and personality. And I was told that you have probably talked to Claude more than anybody else at Anthropic, like literal conversations. I guess there’s a Slack channel where the legend goes, you just talk to it nonstop. So what’s the goal of creating a crafting Claude’s character and personality? Amanda Askell (02:49:37) It’s also funny if people think that about the Slack channel because I’m like that’s one of five or six different methods that I have for talking with Claude, and I’m like, “Yes, this is a tiny percentage of how much I talk with Claude.” One thing I really like about the character work is from the outset it was seen as an alignment piece of work and not something like a product consideration, which I think it actually does make Claude enjoyable to talk with, at least I hope so. But I guess my main thought with it has always been trying to get Claude to behave the way you would ideally want anyone to behave if they were in Claude’s position. So imagine that I take someone and they know that they’re going to be talking with potentially millions of people so that what they’re saying can have a huge impact and you want them to behave well in this really rich sense. (02:50:41) I think that doesn’t just.. The post Philosophers and Anthropic’s Claude first appeared on Daily Nous.