Claude’s Constitution: When an AI Company Chooses Covenant Over Contract
Anthropic releases an 80-page constitution for Claude, addressing consciousness, moral status, and wellbeing. This is what it means for the future of human-AI relation. On January 21, 2026, Anthropic did something unprecedented: they published a 23,000-word constitution for their AI model Claudeβand released it under a Creative Commons CC0 license, meaning anyone can use it […]