Table 1_Governing AI through character: moral agency and corporate authority in Anthropic’s public texts.docx

It delegates judgment without delegating sovereignty. Claude is addressed as capable of interpreting reasons, avowing commitments, and objecting to wrongdoing, while Anthropic retains the power to define the constitutional order, construct the evidence, amend the standards, and decide deployment or termination.</p>Discussion<p>Character compresses moral plurality into portable traits, rankings, and measures, stabilizes an organizational subject across changing models and technical settings, and turns instability into a productive resource.

We call this recursive character-writing because model outputs re-enter the documentary and technical processes through which later versions are specified. The analysis connects science and technology studies with the sociology of morality by showing how corporate texts simultaneously produce a moral object, authorize a bounded moral subject, and secure private constitutive authority.</p>