Describes its LLMs as an ‘entity’ that probably has something like emotions

The Constitution of the United States of America is about 7,500 words long, a factoid The Register mentions because on Wednesday AI company Anthropic delivered an updated 23,000-word constitution for its Claude family of AI models.

In an explainer document, the company notes that the 2023 version of its constitution (which came in at just ~2,700 words) was a mere “list of standalone principles” that is no longer useful because “AI models like Claude need to understand why we want them to behave in certain ways, and we need to explain this to them rather than merely specify what we want them to do.”

The company therefore describes the updated constitution as two things:

• An honest and sincere attempt to help Claude understand its situation, our motives, and the reasons we shape Claude in the ways we do; and
• A detailed description of Anthropic’s vision for ...