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Offline with Jon Favreau

The Philosopher Teaching AI to Be Good

Offline with Jon Favreau

Crooked Media

News, Society & Culture

4.7 • 2.3K Ratings

🗓️ 14 February 2026

⏱️ 63 minutes

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Summary

AI company Anthropic has a new, values-oriented “constitution” that they’re feeding their chatbot, Claude. Amanda Askell, the company’s in-house philosopher, joins Offline to talk about what it means to teach ethics to an LLM, whether the AI skews more human or more robot, and how she is training Claude to make its own judgements. Breaking with other AI models—and social media’s attention obsession—Amanda is trying to teach Claude not to be sycophantic or engagement-driven, but a kind soul who may, one day, be considered sentient.

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