Amanda Askell

Amanda Askell is a philosopher and AI researcher at Anthropic, where she leads the personality alignment team for the Claude AI. Known as the "Claude whisperer, " she focuses on AI safety and ethics, drawing on her PhD in Philosophy from New York University. She was named to the TIME100 AI list in 2024 for her influential work.

Outside of her technical role, Amanda is deeply engaged with philosophical concepts like formal ethics and decision theory. She is a member of Giving What We Can, having pledged to donate a significant portion of her lifetime income to global poverty charities. She initially began her academic career studying both fine art and philosophy.

Amanda is a key architect of "Constitutional AI, " a method that uses a set of guiding principles to train AI models to be helpful and harmless.