AI Glossary Term

What is Constitutional AI?

Definition

A training and behavior-shaping approach where model outputs are guided by a fixed set of written principles.

Related terms

Evaluation Set
A held-out dataset used to measure model quality after training.
Generalization
How well a model performs on new, unseen data outside the training set.
Human-in-the-Loop
A workflow where humans review, guide, or override AI outputs.
Hyperparameter
A configuration value set before training, such as learning rate, batch size, or depth.
Inference
The runtime phase where a trained model generates predictions or outputs.
Knowledge Distillation
Training a smaller model to imitate the outputs of a larger model.

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