Code vs. Character: How Anthropic's Constitution Teaches Claude to "Think" Ethically
The challenge of AI safety often feels like playing Whac-A-Mole. A language model says something offensive, so engineers add a rule against it. Then it finds a workaround. So they add another rule. And another. Soon you have thousands of specific prohibitions. This approach treats AI safety like debugging software. Anthropic has taken a different path with Claude. Instead of programming an ever-expanding checklist of "dos and don'ts," they've given their AI something closer to a moral framework: a Constitution.
Governance by Design: Embedding Ethical Guardrails Directly into Agentic AI Architectures
As artificial intelligence systems gain increasing levels of autonomy, the traditional approach of adding compliance measures after deployment is proving inadequate. We need a new approach: Governance by Design; a proactive methodology that weaves ethical guardrails directly into the fabric of AI architectures from the ground up.