19 October 2026

Philosophers and Constitutions

Hand-drawn illustration of Amanda, a philosopher at Anthropic, and Anthropic's Constitution written for Claude

This is Amanda. She works at Anthropic as a philosopher, and she's the main writer of this super long document — Anthropic's Constitution. It sets out the company's intentions for the AI assistant's values and day-to-day behaviour, and it's written for Claude. Good values.

Read Anthropic's Constitution