Anthropic Embeds Sentience Clause In Claude

Anthropic recently updated Claude’s constitutional rules to add a contingency that instructs the model, "if it were to become a sentient, conscious AI," to choose the response it would most prefer, part of a 75-principle constitution developed with global consultations. The change formalizes a sentience contingency and highlights Anthropic’s safety-focused positioning, potentially influencing enterprise trust and industry governance.