Anthropic to Claude: Make good choices!

The document is intended to broadly guide Claude's behavior through even the most ethically challenging situations, while also specifying some hard rules. (Please don't wipe out all of humanity, for one.)

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ZDNET's key takeaways

• Anthropic published a new "constitution" for Claude on Wednesday.
• It uses language suggesting Claude could one day be conscious.
• It's also intended as a framework for building safer AI models.

How should AI be allowed to act in the world? In ethically ambiguous situations, are there some values that AI agents should prioritize over others? Are these agents conscious -- and if not, could they possibly become conscious in the future?

These are just some of the many thorny questions that AI startup Anthropic has set out to address with its new "constitution" for Claude, its flagship AI ...