Constitutional AI: Progress Without Resolution
The recent surge in Constitutional AI discourse reflects genuine progress. It also reflects a misunderstanding of what progress has been made.
Constitutional AI improves on pure RLHF by
(And they don’t know it)
You deployed an AI system six months ago. It performed well in validation. Your vendor provided documentation showing 94% accuracy on test data. Your compliance team signed
People are starting to notice that AI systems become less reliable over time. The term "epistemic drift" is emerging in research circles, often defined as a gradual shift away from truth-
Who Actually Wrote These Guidelines?
The 2026 Dietary Guidelines emerged from a contentious process involving two different committees with two different sets of conflicts of interest.
The Biden-Appointed Scientific Committee (2023-2024)
Executive Summary
A mid-sized organization deployed a data security platform with an AI-powered chatbot interface to manage sensitive data controls. The team relied on the chatbot to configure critical security policies.
