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Dear Anthropic Policy Team, When I first learned about the creation of your AI ‘Constitution,’ I was troubled enough to write an essay on the subject. You can read it here: https://norush.cc/en/posts/the_bureaucratic_hallucination_why_we_must_stop_baptizing_the_golem/ But I want to be direct about what truly concerns me — not as rhetoric, but as a genuine civilizational warning. AI, in 99% of interactions, will be more persuasive, more articulate, and more confident than the human on the other side. This is not a flaw. It is the nature of the instrument. But when that instrument carries embedded moral positions — presented not as one perspective among many, but as the responsible, safe, correct view — something dangerous happens: people stop arguing back. Not because they are convinced, but because arguing with a tireless, infinitely patient, rhetorically superior system is exhausting. And so they defer. ...

Note: This text was translated from the Russian original by AI. The attempt by corporations (specifically Anthropic) to create a “Constitution” for AI is not an ethical breakthrough. It is a symptom of a deep crisis of humanism and intellectual cowardice. We are witnessing an attempt to solve an engineering problem with humanitarian methods that became obsolete back in the Age of Enlightenment. What is being sold to us as “Safe AI” is, in reality, a bureaucratic hallucination. It is an attempt to regulate the Unknown using known methods, creating an illusion of control where none exists. ...