Claude's Constitution

What It Is: Anthropic's published governance document defining its AI model's intended values, priorities, and behavioral constraints — including a stated hierarchy (safety, ethics, guideline compliance, helpfulness) and explicit "hard constraints" the model must never cross, released publicly under a Creative Commons license. 

Why It Matters: The document operationalizes Accountability and Transparency by publishing the company's internal decision-making priorities and self-imposed limits in detail, including an explicit commitment to avoiding "problematic concentrations of power" and preserving checks and balances — one of the clearest corporate self-governance parallels to CPR's core concerns, applied to a company's product rather than its political conduct. 

How to Use It: Use as a case study in corporate self-governance and voluntary constitutional commitments — a company publicly codifying its own guardrails ahead of regulation — useful for comparing against other governance frameworks like B Corp certification or a corporate lobbying policy.