Amanda Askell is a philosopher and AI researcher specializing in alignment and ethics, known for leading the development of personality traits and constitutional principles for Anthropic's Claude large language models.[1][2]She holds a PhD in philosophy from New York University, with research focused on topics including infinite ethics, and previously served as a research scientist on policy and ethics at OpenAI from 2018 to 2021.[
Undergraduate Studies
Askell completed her undergraduate education with an MA (Hons) in Philosophy from the University of Dundee between 2005 and 2009.[4][7] Following her undergraduate degree, Askell transitioned to the BPhil in Philosophy at the University of Oxford, bridging her initial academic pursuits toward specialized research.[8
Askell completed her PhD in philosophy at New York University in 2018, focusing on infinite ethics.[9] Her dissertation, titled Pareto Principles in Infinite Ethics, examines how to rank worlds ethically when they involve infinite levels of wellbeing.[10] In it, she argues that such rankings should adhere to the Pareto principle, which holds that one world is preferable to another if it improves outcomes for at least one agent without worsening them for any others, even amid infinities.[10]
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