Executive Magazine

In 2021, large language models developer Anthropic hired Amanda Askell as an in-house philosopher and ethicist tasked with training AI to “be good.” But what happens when AI developers choose profit over ethics? And have we gone too far in the wrong direction to course-correct? El Hachem, an AI developer herself, writes about the need for guardrails in AI, and the consequences of reckless AI application.

The soul of the machine There is a woman at Anthropic whose job title, in plain English, is something close to the keeper of Claude's conscience. Amanda Askell, a philosopher with a doctorate in ethics from NYU, leads what the company calls its personality alignment team. Reknowned cultural magazine The New Yorker describe...