# The Philosopher Teaching AI to Be Good

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Podcast: [Offline with Jon Favreau](https://stenobird.com/podcast/offline-with-jon-favreau-5049631)
Published: 2026-02-14T08:30:00+00:00
Episode link: https://audioboom.com/posts/8861197
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## Resource

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. For a closed-captioned version of this episode, click here . For a transcript of this episode, please email transcripts@crooked.com and include the name of the podcast.

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