{"id":40241,"date":"2025-12-06T19:41:10","date_gmt":"2025-12-06T19:41:10","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/agooka.com\/news\/usa\/anthropics-resident-philosopher-shares-her-tips-to-create-the-best-ai-prompts\/"},"modified":"2025-12-06T19:41:10","modified_gmt":"2025-12-06T19:41:10","slug":"anthropics-resident-philosopher-shares-her-tips-to-create-the-best-ai-prompts","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/agooka.com\/news\/usa\/anthropics-resident-philosopher-shares-her-tips-to-create-the-best-ai-prompts\/","title":{"rendered":"Anthropic&#8217;s resident philosopher shares her tips to create the best AI prompts"},"content":{"rendered":"<figure><img decoding=\"async\" src=\"https:\/\/i.insider.com\/69334dd17ecd1d1da6630f50?format=jpeg\" alt=\"llustration by ANTHROPIC, August 1, 2025. Anthropic is an American artificial intelligence (AI) (intelligence artificielle (IA) company founded in 2021. It develops Claude, a family of large language models, and is also known for its research in AI safety, particularly interpretability.\"\/><figcaption>Amanda Askell, a member of Anthropic&#039;s technical team and a trained philosopher, shared her approach to effective AI prompting.<\/p>\n<p>RICCARDO MILANI\/Hans Lucas\/AFP via Getty Images<\/p>\n<\/figcaption><\/figure>\n<ul>\n<li>Anthropic philosopher Amanda Askell shared her approach to effective AI prompting.<\/li>\n<li>Askell emphasized clarity, experimentation, and philosophical thinking in prompt engineering.<\/li>\n<li>Anthropic advises treating AI like a new employee needing explicit, precise instructions.<\/li>\n<\/ul>\n<p>A cornerstone of philosophy is the ability to communicate ideas clearly and precisely.<\/p>\n<p>That&#039;s also the key to getting the most out of an AI model, according to Anthropic&#039;s own resident philosopher.<\/p>\n<p>Amanda Askell, a member of Anthropic&#039;s technical team and a trained philosopher, says that effective prompting requires striking the right balance between several considerations.<\/p>\n<p>On Anthropic&#039;s &quot;Ask Me Anything&quot; podcast, Askell, who studied philosophy at Oxford and New York University, according to her LinkedIn, explained her thought process.<\/p>\n<p>&quot;It is really hard to distill what is going on because one thing is just like a willingness to interact with the models a lot and to really look at output after output,&quot; she said.<\/p>\n<p>Good prompters should be &quot;very experimental,&quot; she said.<\/p>\n<p>Prompting goes beyond experimentation, however, and this is where her philosophical training has helped.<\/p>\n<p>&quot;This is where I actually do think philosophy can actually be useful for prompting in a way because, like, a lot of my job is just being like I try and explain some issue or concern or thought that I&#039;m having to the model as clearly as possible,&quot; she said.<\/p>\n<p>That emphasis on clarity is important not just to help people refine their own prompts but also in understanding AI itself. <\/p>\n<p>In a &quot;Prompt Engineering Overview&quot; that Anthropic published in July, the company said users interacting with Claude, its chatbot, should think of it as &quot;a brilliant, but very new employee (with amnesia) who needs explicit instructions.&quot;<\/p>\n<p>&quot;Claude does not have context on your norms, styles, guidelines, or preferred ways of working. The more precisely you explain what you want, the better Claude&#039;s response will be,&quot; Anthropic wrote.<\/p>\n<p>Veteran venture capitalist Marc Andreessen said last month that the power of AI comes from treating it as a&quot;thought partner.&quot;<\/p>\n<p>&quot;Part of the art of AI is what questions to ask it,&quot; he said.<\/p>\n<p>Those who master this skill can land lucrative jobs as prompt engineers, which have a median salary of $150,000, according to levels.fyi, a platform for tech workers to research and compare salaries.<\/p>\n<p>Read the original article on Business Insider<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>Amanda Askell, a member of Anthropic&#039;s technical team and a trained philosopher, shared her approach to effective AI prompting. RICCARDO MILANI\/Hans Lucas\/AFP via Getty Images Anthropic philosopher Amanda Askell shared her approach to effective AI prompting. Askell emphasized clarity, experimentation, and philosophical thinking in prompt engineering. 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