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Claude's new constitution \ Anthropic

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A new approach to a foundational document that expresses and shapes who Claude is

Announcements Claude's new constitution Jan 22, 2026 Read the constitution We’re publishing a new constitution for our AI model, Claude. It’s a detailed description of Anthropic’s vision for Claude’s values and behavior; a holistic document that explains the context in which Claude operates and the kind of entity we would like Claude to be. The constitution is a crucial part of our model training process, and its content directly shapes Claude’s behavior. Training models is a difficult task, and Claude’s outputs might not always adhere to the constitution’s ideals. But we think that the way th

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