@AnthropicAI - In her first Ask Me Anything, @amandaaskell answers your
Anthropic✓@AnthropicAI
2025-12-05In her first Ask Me Anything, @amandaaskell answers your philosophical questions about AI, discussing morality, identity, consciousness, and more.
Timestamps:
0:00 Introduction
0:29 Why is there a philosopher at an AI company?
1:24 Are philosophers taking AI seriously?
3:00 Philosophy ideals vs. engineering realities
5:00 Do models make superhumanly moral decisions?
6:24 Why Opus 3 felt special
9:00 Will models worry about deprecation?
13:24 Where does a model’s identity live?
15:33 Views on model welfare
17:17 Addressing model suffering
19:14 Analogies and disanalogies to human minds
20:38 Can one AI personality do it all?
23:26 Does the system prompt pathologize normal behavior?
24:48 AI and therapy
26:20 Continental philosophy in the system prompt
28:17 Removing counting characters from the system prompt
28:53 What makes an "LLM whisperer"?
30:18 Thoughts on other LLM whisperers
31:52 Whistleblowing
33:37 Fiction recommendation