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Welcome back. AI giant Anthropic today
announced a new teaching tool called

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Claude for teachers. The new chatbot was
designed with input from educators, and

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the company says it can help with
everything from administrative work to

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tailoring lesson plans. Our Rebecca
Jarvis spoke exclusively with Anthropic

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president and co-founder Daniela Amodei
about the making of the new product and

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why the company thinks it'll be
a game-changer for the education system.

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Amodei also answers questions about
Claude's code of ethics and why AI's

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energy use might decrease with time.

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>> Tell us about this new tool
and how teachers will be using it.

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>> Today, we are launching Claude for

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teachers. And this is a tool that allows

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teachers who are in the classroom with

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kids from kindergarten through age 12 to

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have free, tailored access to Claude

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Pro.

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And this enables them to be able to

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really take specific curricula
and tailor them to the needs of their

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specific classroom. >> How have
teachers there been using it?

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>> One is really helping teachers on the

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administrative side. So, helping them
to fill out paperwork and forms and do a

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lot of the kind of back-end work that's
needed just in the day-to-day of running

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a classroom. The second one is helping

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teachers develop curriculum. So, it's

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tailored to the specific requirements of

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that state and region and their
educational curriculum to really partner

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with teachers to help them develop
tailored learning tools for their

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specific classroom. >> You're
also a mom. Is this something you

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would hope to see in your
children's school someday?

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>> I personally feel
really, really excited

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for what it means. My son's
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And I'm really hopeful that his
school will adopt, you know, Claude for

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teachers to help tailor curriculum
for him and for his classmates.

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>> There are going to be parents who hear

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this and feel nervous because parents

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have watched their kids with smartphones

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and screentime and social media and

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they've seen the unwanted unintended
consequences that they weren't really

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prepared for. This is in the hands of
teachers now, but what do you say to the

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parents who are nervous that this new
technology is going to repeat those same

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mistakes? >> I completely
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this worry and I think a key difference

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here is that Claude.ai remains for

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18-year-old users and above only. So,

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individual students below the age of 18

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won't have access to the tool directly

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and I think this isn't because we
necessarily feel, you know, worried that

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this is, you know, a terrible thing to

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give to kids, but I think the reality is

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we just don't know enough about AI's

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impact on the developing brain
for Anthropic to feel comfortable giving

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access to students directly.

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>> We know that AI can hallucinate. It can

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make mistakes. If this chatbot were to

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make a mistake, if it were to give the

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wrong information or bad advice or
reinforce bias, who would be accountable

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for that? >> These models
are not foolproof. They do

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make mistakes and part of how we have

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worked with teachers in developing this

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technology and really listening to their

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questions and concerns is helping to,

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you know, spot when an AI might be,
you know, entering unknown territory. What

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are the signs to look for and how can
that teacher partner most effectively

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with the tool to make sure that it's
being used well. I think the other, you

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know, most important kind of quality in

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terms of how we train the models is

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Constitutional AI is a tool that we have

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used to really make the models be as

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aligned with human values as possible,
which essentially makes the models have

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the system of ethics. It makes the

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models more honest, more helpful, and

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more harmless. And what we've seen over

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the course of years is that the models'
ability to be, uh, you know, accurate in

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terms of, you know, responding
to questions, the rate of like harmful

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responses has just dramatically declined.
So, we're really feeling very

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positive about the models' abilities
to interact in a variety of different

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situations, uh, with the teachers to make
sure that that the answers that are

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being provided are are accurate.

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>> Is there a backstop, though? What

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resources would a teacher have if they

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weren't sure about a response?

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>> So, part of what I think is so powerful

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about these tools is that they're not

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designed to replace thinking. Teachers

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have a wealth of information about, uh,
the curriculum that they're teaching,

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about the specific students that they
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to. The way I would look at this is
Claude is almost like a great, uh,

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partner in helping the teachers sort

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through challenging topics or questions
or understand part of the curriculum,

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um, and how to teach that to their
students in a way that works for them.

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>> You also mentioned earlier the idea of

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ethics, that ethics are a part of the

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creation of this. Who sets those ethics?

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What are the guiding principles
and North Stars in that ethics category?

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>> So, we've actually published what

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Claude's constitution looks like, and,

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uh, just the many different, uh, ideas

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and documents and people that have
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this framework for how we teach Claude
this this system of ethics. Some earlier

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versions of our constitution relied
very heavily on a number of different

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founding documents, uh, ranging from

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things like the UN and

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of Human Rights. And so, the idea here
is that instead of just sort of telling

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the model, oh, you know, be nice. What

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does be nice mean, right? There's a huge

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body of information that humans have

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built over the course of uh centuries

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about how to behave in ways that are
fair, that are kind, that are ethical,

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and that are responsible. And we
incorporated those into how we actually

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train and reinforce
the models' uh capabilities.

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>> One of those things that that keeps
coming up, it comes up every time I talk

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about AI, people ask me about the energy

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consumption, the resource consumption.

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And while data centers have become more

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efficient over time because of the

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chips, there's just more demand for AI,
which then increases the energy usage

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and increases the costs on the

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communities where they are centered. How

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far off are we from AI solving that

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problem? Using less energy, the world
finding alternatives to energy because

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of AI. >> We don't know
a specific timeline sort

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of for the future, but what I would say

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is with every generation of model, we

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have become dramatically more efficient

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at how well we use the chips. I think

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Anthropic has, you know, long been a

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proponent of doing more with less.

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>> When we last spoke,
I was very struck by

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your advice for students to study the

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humanities. What do you say to college

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graduates who are looking for work right

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now, and the feedback that they're

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hearing, we're holding off on hiring

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because AI might be able to do a lot of

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these entry-level jobs.
>> I really think for young people coming

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out of college, I would continue to say

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that the qualities that we most look for

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at a place like Anthropic are an ability

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to communicate well, to relate to other

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people, to have empathy, to be flexible,

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right? Because these AI models are

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really changing the nature of work. So

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much of what we have seen from the

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research that we've done is models are

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still predominantly supplementing human

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labor. They're not replacing humans.

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They're changing how we do our work.
But I think in a lot of ways, younger

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people, especially folks who like grew
up natively using and understanding

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artificial intelligence, I actually
believe in some ways can have an edge

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because they're really adaptable.

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They're curious, they've prioritized,
I think a lot of the time, the

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human-to-human skills that I think not
only are not going to go away, but are

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going to be ascendant in the workplace
in a world of of artificial

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intelligence.
>> Our thanks to Rebecca Jarvis.