Anthropic’s Philosopher Amanda Askell Is Teaching Claude AI to Have Morals - WSJ
archive.today webpage capture Saved from history←priornext→ 20 Sep 2026 11:40:35 UTC All snapshots from host www.wsj.com WebpageScreenshot sharedownload .zipreport bug or abuseBuy me a coffee The Wall Street Journal WSJ. MAGAZINE Meet the One Woman Anthropic Trusts to Teach AI Morals The tech company has tasked Amanda Askell with giving its chatbot, Claude, a sense of right and wrong. Amanda Askell, the resident philosopher at Anthropic, spends her days learning Claude’s reasoning patterns and talking to the AI model. By Berber Jin and Ellen Gamerman | Photography by Lindsay Ellary for WSJ Magazine Feb. 9, 2026 7:00 am ET Amanda Askell knew from the age of 14 that she wanted to teach philosophy. What she didn’t know then was that her only pupil would be an artificial-intelligence chatbot named Claude. As the resident philosopher of the tech company Anthropic, Askell spends her days learning Claude’s reasoning patterns and talking to the AI model, building its personality and a