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Amanda Askell | Profile
Profile at a glance
Amanda Askell is a philosopher and AI alignment researcher at Anthropic. Anthropic’s 2026 Claude Constitution identifies her as leading Character work and as its primary author; her public CV lists alignment fine-tuning research at Anthropic and earlier policy research at OpenAI.
Source verification date: · Anthropic’s 2026 Constitution supports the description of Askell’s Character role and primary authorship; her CV supplies job titles, dates and education. Anthropic says she wrote most of the Constitution and led multiple revisions.
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Experience
Askell’s research background includes philosophy, ethics and decision theory, with professional experience in AI policy research, alignment fine-tuning and Claude Character design.
Career and roles
- Anthropic · Research Scientist, Alignment Finetuning
2021–present (CV) · Her public CV lists model alignment fine-tuning research; Anthropic’s 2026 material confirms her role leading Character work.
- OpenAI · Research Scientist, Policy
2018–2021 · Research role listed on her CV.
Education
- New York University
PhD in Philosophy, 2011–2018; dissertation on the Pareto principle in infinite ethics
- University of Oxford
BPhil in Philosophy, 2009–2011
- University of Dundee
MA (Hons) in Philosophy, 2005–2009
Public record
- Anthropic’s 2026 Claude Constitution names Askell as the lead for Character work and its primary author. Anthropic says she wrote most of the document and led multiple rounds of revision.
Sources
- 1. About Me | Amanda Askell
I’m a philosopher working on finetuning and AI alignment at Anthropic.
- 2. Curriculum Vitae | Amanda Askell
Research Scientist (Alignment Finetuning), Anthropic, 2021 - Present; Research Scientist (Policy), OpenAI, 2018 - 2021.
- 3. Claude’s Constitution | Anthropic
Amanda Askell leads Anthropic's Character work and is the primary author of this document.