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Constitutional AI: Harmlessness from AI Feedback

A set of written principles guides critique, revision and AI-generated preference feedback during alignment.

Yuntao Bai et al.
2022-12 · Anthropic · Research paper
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@misc{bai2022constitutional,
  title = {Constitutional AI: Harmlessness from AI Feedback},
  author = {Yuntao Bai and Saurav Kadavath and Sandipan Kundu and Amanda Askell and Jackson Kernion and Andy Jones and Anna Chen and Anna Goldie and Azalia Mirhoseini and Cameron McKinnon and Carol Chen and Catherine Olsson and Christopher Olah and Danny Hernandez and Dawn Drain and Deep Ganguli and Dustin Li and Eli Tran-Johnson and Ethan Perez and Jamie Kerr and Jared Mueller and Jeffrey Ladish and Joshua Landau and Kamal Ndousse and Kamile Lukosuite and Liane Lovitt and Michael Sellitto and Nelson Elhage and Nicholas Schiefer and Noemi Mercado and Nova DasSarma and Robert Lasenby and Robin Larson and Sam Ringer and Scott Johnston and Shauna Kravec and Sheer El Showk and Stanislav Fort and Tamera Lanham and Timothy Telleen-Lawton and Tom Conerly and Tom Henighan and Tristan Hume and Samuel R. Bowman and Zac Hatfield-Dodds and Ben Mann and Dario Amodei and Nicholas Joseph and Sam McCandlish and Tom Brown and Jared Kaplan},
  year = {2022},
  eprint = {2212.08073},
  archivePrefix = {arXiv},
  primaryClass = {cs.CL},
  url = {https://arxiv.org/abs/2212.08073}
}

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