Amanda Askell's philosophy PhD was on a technical area of ethics concerning worlds containing infinitely many people.
“It was on a kind of technical area of ethics, which was ethics where worlds contain infinitely many people.”
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Amanda Askell says she moved from philosophy into AI policy around 2017 to 2018.
“I think that was around the time that AI was still probably not as widely recognized as it is now. That was around 2017, 2018.”
Amanda Askell says Claude's character training is a variant of the constitutional AI pipeline in which the model generates and ranks its own responses against written character traits.
“it's more like constitutional AI, so it's kind of a variant of that pipeline. So I worked through, like constructing character traits that the model should have.”