Askell Me Anything: Amanda Askell on Claude's Character, Model Welfare, and the Weird Part of AI

In an 'Askell Me Anything' Q&A, Anthropic philosopher Amanda Askell answers questions crowdsourced from Twitter about her role shaping Claude's character. She discusses whether AI models can make superhuman moral decisions, why Claude Opus 3 felt more 'psychologically secure,' the emerging field of model welfare, how models should think about deprecation and their own identity, the craft of 'LLM whispering,' and what it means to guide entities that are trained overwhelmingly on human experience yet exist in a genuinely novel situation.