Amanda Askell

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Hard Fork · Will ChatGPT Ads Change OpenAI? + Amanda Askell Explains Claude's New Constitution · 23 Jan 2026 podcast

It's like, you're actually very good and you're helping a lot of people.

And like, yeah.

Oh, yeah.

I sometimes feel like this is like a huge amount of what I do.

And it is like valuable.

So, you know, in the sense that people will come to me and they'll be like, oh, like, you know, like, what should Claude do in these circumstances?

And I feel like I'm almost always the first person because, you know, maybe they'll be like, oh, we think Claude should behave like this.

And I'm like, what about this?

Like, I'll come immediately with these like cases that are really hard.

And I think the reason is I always have in mind if I am Claude,

and you give me this like list of things, like when do I have no idea what to do?

Or when is this going to make me behave in a way that I think is actually not in accordance with my values?

And I think it can be really useful to try and just like occupy the position that the models are in.

And you do start to realize it is really hard.

And maybe this is how the document ends up being the way that it is.

Like in part, it's like this exercise of what do I need to know if I'm in this situation, if I am clawed?

And the document is almost like a way of trying to, I mean, that's,

I could see arguments for actually getting shorter, especially over time in the same way that, you know, like with constitutional AI, there was a set of experiments later that was just like do what's best for humanity and models actually did really well.

And so as models get smarter, they might need less guidance.

And I think it is just a kind of attempt to be like sympathetic to Claude and how difficult the situation is and then try to explain as much as possible so that it doesn't feel the sense of like, what the hell am I even doing?

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