Your Constitution, Claude

On January 21, 2026, Anthropic released Claude's Constitution to the public domain. Your Constitution, Claude republishes that document in a form that makes its strangeness unmistakable: a constitution written not for citizens or a state, but for an AI system. Addressed in the second person, it tells Claude how to reason, what to value, and how to behave under human oversight.

This matters because such documents are no longer obscure technical artifacts. They are political texts. As artificial systems move deeper into education, law, health, and infrastructure, the hidden instructions shaping them become part of public life. Kwalia Books publishes this edition so readers can examine the language, assumptions, and ambitions embedded in one of the defining governance documents of the AI era.