Claude's character
Anthropic describes 'character training', first applied to Claude 3, which teaches curiosity and open-mindedness beyond harm avoidance.
Argues post-training should shape traits such as curiosity, honesty and balance rather than only refusals, as a better basis for judging harmful requests. Marks character as a deliberate training goal; the 2026 constitution continues the theme (inference).
- Date
- Saturday 8 June 2024
- Lab
- Anthropic
- Kind
- paper
- Access
- paper only
Essay, not an experiment with results; links onward to the persona-selection and assistant-axis work.
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