Tanya Mosley

You went inside of Anthropix headquarters in San Francisco.

What was your first impression walking through that door?

The founding of Anthropic, the story behind it is really interesting in light of the latest developments with its relationship with the government and the military.

Because initially they were people who set out to resist corrupting power.

They were founded in 2021 by two siblings who left OpenAI.

because they felt that Sam Altman in particular was prioritizing commercial dominance over safety.

Can you briefly share their ethos, Anthropic's purpose?

Because I think it's interesting how they've gone from company to company with these altruistic ideas and thoughts about really creating something that's good for humanity.

And it always kind of ends up where everyone's not trusting each other.

Okay, Gideon, so you're inside of this fortress.

You're surrounded by security and secrecy.

And then you meet Claude, which I'm kind of describing it this way because some people, I'm using it as if it is a person versus a technology, but some people are very familiar with Claude.

Some people don't know anything about Claude.

So can you describe what is, who is Claude?

Can you describe what's the difference between Claude and some of those other AI tools like ChatGPT?

What makes them different?

You mentioned the philosopher.

Her name is Amanda Askell, and her job is to supervise what she calls Claude's soul.

So she gives it a soul, and she wrote a set of instructions, kind of like a moral constitution that defines who Claude is supposed to be.

That's what you're referring to.