Amanda Askell
Philosopher who leads Anthropic's Character work; primary author of Claude's constitution
Amanda Askell is a philosopher working on finetuning and AI alignment at Anthropic, where Askell's team trains models to be more honest and to have good character traits. Anthropic credits Askell as the lead of its Character work and the primary author of Claude's constitution, released in January 2026 under a CC0 1.0 deed. Before Anthropic, Askell was a research scientist on OpenAI's policy team, working on AI safety via debate and human baselines for AI performance, and is a co-author of the GPT-3 and CLIP papers. Askell is also first author of Anthropic's 2021 paper "A General Language Assistant as a Laboratory for Alignment".123457
Work
Claude's constitution (external site: anthropic.com)Published research
Primary author who wrote the majority of the text and led its development through multiple rounds of revision, according to the document's preface and acknowledgements; Anthropic released it under a CC0 1.0 deed.23
A General Language Assistant as a Laboratory for Alignment (external site: arxiv.org)Published research
First-listed author, marked as a core research contributor, of the 2021 Anthropic paper studying baseline techniques and evaluations for a helpful, honest and harmless text-based assistant.7
CLIPOpen weights
Co-author, with an OpenAI affiliation, of "Learning Transferable Visual Models From Natural Language Supervision" (2021), which releases code and pre-trained weights under the MIT license.56
Other documented roles
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