A Structural Response to Claude’s Constitution &“The Adolescence of Technology” Essay (PDF) Executive Summary On January 21, 2026, Anthropic published Claude’s Constitution, an 80-page document articulating values, character formation, and behavioral guidelines for its AI system. Six days later, on January 27, 2026, CEO Dario Amodei released “The Adolescence of Technology,” a 20,000-word essay examining […]
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The Adolescence of Governance
The Quality Distinction Missing from AI Safety Original Letter (Click to Read) To: Dario Amodei, Chief Executive Officer, Anthropic, Your essay, The Adolescence of Technology, is one of the most serious and intellectually honest examinations of advanced AI risk produced by a frontier lab leader. It avoids religious doom narratives, rejects inevitability claims, and confronts […]
Checkpoint-Based Governance: An Implementation Framework for Accountable Human-AI Collaboration (v2 drafting)
Executive Summary Organizations deploying AI systems face a persistent implementation gap: regulatory frameworks and ethical guidelines mandate human oversight, but provide limited operational guidance on how to structure that oversight in practice. This paper introduces Checkpoint-Based Governance (CBG), a protocol-driven framework for human-AI collaboration that operationalizes oversight requirements through systematic decision points, documented arbitration, and […]