AI Constitutions:

{ "name": "AI Constitutions: ", "description": "Update:The start time of this event has been changed to 5:00 pm.What can the law teach us about where AI systems should exercise judgment when their instructions leave room for interpretation?AI developers now govern their most capable models through written \u201cconstitutions.\u201d These documents set out a model\u2019s values, priorities and character, and they\u2019re used directly in training. Anthropic\u2019s constitution for Claude is the most prominent example. These documents raise questions that law has dealt with for centuries. Who has the authority to write them? How should vague principles be interpreted when they conflict? Can a model meaningfully consent to the values it\u2019s trained on? What role, if any, should governments play?Nicholas Caputo (Johns Hopkins School of Government and Policy; Oxford Martin AI Governance Initiative) and Jordi Weinstock (Harvard Law School; Berkman Klein Center) will discuss what legal theory can and can\u2019t tell us about AI constitutions. Caputo\u2019s research treats AI alignment as a problem of jurisprudence, and his work in progress asks whether Claude can consent to its own constitution. Weinstock teaches at Harvard Law School about the confluence of AI and traditional law and served as an external reviewer of Claude\u2019s constitution.", "startDate": "2026-11-03", "endDate": "2026-11-03", "startTime": "17:00", "endTime": "18:00", "location": "1557 Massachusetts Ave., , 5th Floor, Cambridge, MA, 02138, US", "label": "Add to Calendar", "options": [ "Apple", "Google", "iCal", "Microsoft365", "MicrosoftTeams", "Yahoo" ], "timeZone": "US/Eastern", "trigger": "click", "inline": true, "listStyle": "modal", "iCalFileName": "Event 304979" }