Amanda Askell
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Yeah, I guess I try to think about what Claude's character should be like and articulate that to Claude and try to train Claude to be more like that.
So yeah, it's a pretty accurate description, I think.
Yeah, it's really interesting because, you know, my path wasn't like a kind of straight one.
You know, I have said before that, like, if you do a PhD in ethics, I think there's a risk that you end up doing something else because you're kind of thinking like you're thinking a lot about like goodness, the nature of ethics, the problems in the world.
And then sometimes you're like, I am spending three years like writing a document that's going to be read by like 17 people.
Is this the thing I should be doing?
You know, like it can definitely make you kind of question that.
And so when I went into AI, it wasn't necessarily even with like, oh, like philosophy is going to be really useful.
I was just kind of like, there's probably a lot of space for people who are enthusiastic, who have like skills or willing to learn.
And like, this seems important.
So, you know, like I originally started out in policy.
And then when I
Anthropic started.
It was actually, you know, it was very small.
And so I joined mostly with like a kind of I'm just like willing to help with like various aspects of this because I had been working a little bit in like model evaluation and things like that.
So I don't know.
Sometimes I think people think, oh, you started out as this like philosopher.
And I'm like, well, it was a startup.
I was just kind of doing anything that needed done.
Right.
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