# Anthropic Constitution **Entity class:** AI governance document **Domain:** Artificial intelligence / Alignment **Maturity:** Developed ## Definition The Anthropic Constitution is the written normative framework used to guide Claude's behavior through constitutional AI methods. ## Mechanism and significance The broadcast distinguishes the legitimate goal of explicit behavioral principles from claims that a written hard constraint alone can guarantee a model will never contribute to prohibited outcomes. ## Relationships - **Research dossier:** [[research/ASI and RSI Timeline Research Moonshots|ASI and RSI Timeline Research Moonshots]] - **Ontology route:** [[ASI and RSI Timeline Ontology#AI Control, Law, and Alignment|AI Control, Law, and Alignment]] - **Primary fields:** [[AI Control]] · [[AI Safety]] · [[AI Infrastructure Consent]] - **Adjacent concepts:** [[Cryptography Export Controls]] · [[Number Theory as Controlled Information]] · [[Hard Behavioral Constraint]] · [[Reward Hacking]] ## Sources and provenance - [[research/ASI and RSI Timeline Research Moonshots|ASI and RSI Timeline Research Moonshots]] — immediate source for this node's role in the broadcast research map. ## Evidence boundary The research dossier establishes why this entity or concept belongs in the Moonshots ontology. Time-sensitive organizational, product, policy, and performance claims should be checked against the linked primary source or a current authoritative source before reuse as settled fact.