AI Companies Develop 'Constitutions' to Instill Values and Prevent Harms

AI companies like Anthropic and DeepMind are creating "AI constitutions" to instill positive values in AI systems and prevent harms.

The goal is for AI to learn fundamental principles to keep itself in check without much human oversight.

Having explicit rules makes it more transparent when AI fails to follow the principles.

Current methods like reinforcement learning from human feedback are primitive for aligning AI with human values.

AI constitutions aim to address this by teaching AI core values like honesty and respect from the ground up.