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Anthropic updated Claude’s “Constitution,” spelling out the chatbot’s “ethical character” and, crucially, requiring it not to “kill or disempower” humanity.
The Constitution is baked into Claude’s thinking; previous versions were softer guidelines, but as Claude becomes more powerful, its maker has added constraints on dangerous behavior.
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Anthropic vows to protect humanity with AI ‘constitution’
Anthropic updated Claude’s rules, spelling out the chatbot’s “ethical character” and, crucially, requiring it not to “kill or disempower” humanity.Tom Chivers (www.semafor.com)
Nicole Parsons
in reply to Steve Thompson PhD • • •This is utter nonsense.
Machines do not have ethics or morals and the fossil fuel funded fascists funding AI have neither, just programming.
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The delusion of being "heroes & saviors" is a necessary prerequisite to the mass murder.
Imperialists have always used myths to justify the murder.
The men of the Alamo marketed themselves as the "good guys".
They were fighting to keep slavery.
time.com/6072141/alamo-history…
historynewsnetwork.org/article…
The British Empire thought itself as the "good guys". They extracted $44 billion in wealth from India alone.
All those lovely crown jewels? Looted.
aljazeera.com/opinions/2018/12…
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How Britain stole $45 trillion from India
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Nazis believed they were the "good guys" too. Freeing people from the "communist" threat.
WW2 killed 90 million people.
en.wikipedia.org/wiki/World_Wa…
Hitler got funding from the wealthiest of the UK & the USA
theatlantic.com/ideas/archive/….
Conquistadors & the Puritans thought they were "the good guys".
They brought diseases, invasion, & enslavement to the indigenous peoples & killed most of the population.
100 million to less than 8 million by 1600.
en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Genocide…
en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Populati…
Henry Ford’s Anti-Semitism Was Not a Footnote
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Centuries of wars caused by the rapacious greed & murder of the "good guys"
American capitalism describes itself as "good" as well.
Some of the billionaires born from it are some of the most evil ever imagined.
They plan on killing a billion people from climate change. They're orchestrating financial & economic disaster.
nytimes.com/2025/12/20/us/poli…
What kinds of myths are the buyers of a White Supremacy Constitution selling this time?
commondreams.org/news/trump-bi…
pbs.org/newshour/show/how-the-…
How the new class of billionaires solidified outsized political influence
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