AGI Strategies

person

Amanda Askell

Anthropic philosopher-researcher

Philosopher who leads Claude's 'character' work at Anthropic. Central voice on model welfare, AI personality, and virtue-ethics-informed alignment.

current Researcher (Character, Policy, and Philosophy), Anthropic
@AmandaAskell

Strategy positions

Alignment firstendorses

Solve technical alignment before capability thresholds close

Shapes Claude's public persona through a virtue-ethics framing; argues character-forward alignment is practical and tractable.

When we train a model, we are not just shaping behaviour, we are shaping a character.
articleAmanda Askell, Anthropic· Anthropic· 2024· loose paraphrase

Closest strategy neighbours

by jaccard overlap

Other people whose strategy tags overlap with Amanda Askell's. Overlap is on tag identity, not stance; opposites can show up if they reference the same tags.

  • Aaron Courville

    shared 1 · J=1.00

    Université de Montréal; Deep Learning textbook co-author

  • Adam Jermyn

    shared 1 · J=1.00

    Anthropic; previously astrophysics

  • Adam Kalai

    shared 1 · J=1.00

    Microsoft Research; AI fairness and safety

  • Agnes Callard

    Agnes Callard

    shared 1 · J=1.00

    University of Chicago philosopher; aspiration theorist

  • Ajeya Cotra

    shared 1 · J=1.00

    Open Philanthropy researcher; 'biological anchors' forecaster

  • Alan Turing

    Alan Turing

    shared 1 · J=1.00

    Founder of theoretical computer science (1912–1954)

Record last updated 2026-04-25.