Anthropic’s philosopher answers your questions

章节 1：哲学家的介入——Amanda Askell的角色与背景

📝 本节摘要：

访谈伊始，主持人以一个关于名字的双关语（Askell me anything）开场，并询问 Amanda 作为一个哲学家为何会加入 AI 公司 Anthropic。Amanda 解释了她的初衷是认为 AI 将产生重大影响，并希望在此领域提供帮助，目前主要关注模型（Claude）的性格塑造及其自我认知。

[原文] [Speaker A]: - A seal!

[译文] [Speaker A]: ——一只海豹！

——有一只海豹。

——有一只海豹。真不错。

——噢，嘿，噢。

——噢，看那个。

——Amanda，你在 Twitter 上让你的关注者们给你提些问题，问你任何事（ask you anything），而那个笑话显然是“Askell me anything”（谐音：问 Askell 任何事）。

[原文] [Speaker B]: - Yeah, it's a great pun. We need to keep using it for many future things.

[译文] [Speaker B]: ——是啊，这是个很棒的双关语。我们需要在未来的很多事情上继续使用它。

[原文] [Speaker A]: - I love it, love it. And obviously, just before we start, you're a philosopher at Anthropic. Why is it that there's a philosopher at Anthropic?

[译文] [Speaker A]: ——我喜欢它，很喜欢。显然，在我们开始之前，你是 Anthropic 的一名哲学家。为什么 Anthropic 会有一名哲学家？

[原文] [Speaker B]: - I mean, some of this is just, I'm a philosopher by training, I became convinced that AI was kind of going to be a big deal, and so decided to see, hey, can I do anything, like, helpful in this space? And so it's been a kind of like long and wandering route. But I guess now I mostly focus on the character of Claude, how Claude behaves, and I guess some of the more kind of nuanced questions about how AI models should behave, but also even just things like how should they feel about their own position in the world. So trying to both teach models how to be, like, good in the way that, I sometimes think of it as like how would the ideal person behave in Claude's situation? But then also I think these interesting questions that are coming up more now around how they should think about their own circumstances and their own values and things like that.

[译文] [Speaker B]: ——我想，部分原因仅仅是因为我受过哲学训练，我开始确信 AI 将会是一件大事，所以决定去看看，嘿，我能不能在这个领域做点什么有帮助的事情？这是一条漫长且曲折的道路。但我猜现在我主要关注 Claude 的性格，Claude 如何表现，以及我想还有一些关于 AI 模型应该如何表现的更微妙的问题，甚至包括像它们应该如何看待自己在这个世界上的位置这样的事情。所以，既尝试教模型如何变得“好”，某种程度上我会将其思考为：一个理想的人在 Claude 的处境下会如何表现？但同时我也认为，现在涌现出的这些关于它们应该如何思考自身处境、自身价值观之类的有趣问题也很重要。