Every major model out there can summarise documents, write code and answer multi step questions – then if you decide to go with a specific vendor based on costs then great, but I don’t.

Doom and gloom?

I have read many books such as life 3.0 and If anyone builds it everyone dies and yes its doom and gloom for most of it where much is discussed around the warnings of alignment failure and lack of governance and guard rails. Some will read these books and dismiss it as sci-fi but once I read through these books it was too hard to dismiss. So I got thinking, which company out there is treating AI safety at its core – that lead me to Anthropic and its Constitution.

The Constitution that changed my thinking

The Constitution covers honesty, avoiding harm, being helpful and being transparent about uncertainty.  Claude will tell you when its unsure, it will refuse to do things that could cause harm not because someone developed a filter but because it’s a core principle of the model itself. I haven’t done the Constitution justice here you should read it for yourself https://www.anthropic.com/constitution but you will probably see why I am so curious about exploring Claude further.

However, if there is one important concept to take from today it’s the priority order of the Constitution below

Safety first, then ethics, then Anthropic’s rules, then user helpfulness.

Claude is exactly the model I want to use.