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Researcher Profile
Editor reviewedScott Johnston
Alignment via AI feedback (Constitutional AI)
Alignment and evaluation researcher at Anthropic
Useful for the arc from early RLHF assistant work into the later evaluation-heavy safety layer Anthropic built on top of it.
Organizations
Anthropic
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Helpful and harmless assistant training
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Constitutional AI
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Model-written evaluations
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Alignment via AI feedback (Constitutional AI)
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Constitutional AI: Harmlessness from AI Feedback
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Training a Helpful and Harmless Assistant with Reinforcement Learning from Human Feedback
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Training a Helpful and Harmless Assistant with Reinforcement Learning from Human FeedbackarticleConstitutional AI: Harmlessness from AI FeedbackpaperDiscovering Language Model Behaviors with Model-Written EvaluationspaperTraining a Helpful and Harmless Assistant with Reinforcement Learning from Human Feedbackpaper
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