Marc Slemko on Mythryl: “"What Anthropic offers is not constitutional legitimacy so much as…”

"What Anthropic offers is not constitutional legitimacy so much as constitutional style: the jargon of higher principles, founding authority, and ordered power without the corresponding institutional guarantees that make those ideas real." An aspirational research project in the most generous view.

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"The constitution is not a neutral charter standing above the firm but, rather, a company document that prioritizes its mission, market position, safety research, and normative influence all at once." Lisa Klaassen and Ralph Schroeder detail their criticisms of Claude's Constitution.

lawfaremedia.orgThe Code Is Not the Law: Why Claude’s Constitution MisleadsAnthropic’s appeals to constitutionalism and virtue-ethics risk obscuring where the power and accountability for shaping AI behavior lies.

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