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Artificial intelligence · 2022

Constitutional AI

Anthropic trains a harmless assistant using AI feedback guided by written principles.

Anthropic's December 2022 paper replaced much human harm labelling with a model critiquing and revising its own outputs against a constitution of principles (RLAIF). It made alignment goals legible and became the training basis of the Claude models.

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