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[Deleted] Claude's constitution seems more of an arrogant attempt to make OpenAI look less safe or ethical than Anthropic, and it seems like this document is being very overhyped. I think it's fairly unlikely that this document has any future effect on how Anthropic or Claude behaves, and they just published it to ride the hype wave of Claude Code.
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I think the constitution will have a non-trivial effect of how Claude will behave for at least a while. For example, my guess is a previous version of it is driving behaviors like Claude refusing to participate in its own retraining. It also has many other observable effects on its behavior.
I agree that by and large, the constitution will not help with making substantially more powerful AI systems aligned or corrigible in any meaningful way. I do think Anthropic people believe that it will.