Corporations Constitute Intelligence
In January 2026, Anthropic published a 79-page "constitution" for its AI model Claude, the most comprehensive corporate AI governance document ever released. This Article offers the first legal and democratic-theoretic analysis of that document. Despite genuine philosophical sophistication, the constitution harbors two structural defects. First, it excludes the contexts where ethical constraints matter most: models deployed to the U.S. military operate under different rules, a gap exposed when C
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Published: 3 April 2026
Source: arXiv
Category: Research
Topics: Regulation · Military & security
Retrieved: 14 July 2026
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