{ "lesson": "05-constitutional-ai-rlaif", "title": "Constitutional AI and RLAIF", "questions": [ { "stage": "pre", "question": "What is the core substitution in Constitutional AI versus standard RLHF?", "options": [ "It removes the reward model entirely", "It uses synthetic prompts instead of real ones", "It replaces the human preference labeler with an AI labeler that reads a list of principles", "It replaces PPO with DPO" ], "correct": 2, "explanation": "" }, { "stage": "check", "question": "What does the first (SFT) phase of Constitutional AI do?", "options": [ "Generates synthetic principles by clustering labeler comments", "Produces an initial response, critiques it under a sampled constitution principle, then revises and uses the revision as SFT target", "Performs PPO with a constitution-derived reward", "Trains a reward model on AI-generated preferences only" ], "correct": 1, "explanation": "" }, { "stage": "check", "question": "What does the second (RLAIF) phase do?", "options": [ "Skips PPO and applies a single supervised loss", "Trains a reward model on AI-generated preferences from a feedback model and runs PPO against it", "Has humans re-label the SFT outputs", "Distills the constitution into the tokenizer" ], "correct": 1, "explanation": "" }, { "stage": "check", "question": "What is the tier order in Anthropic's January 2026 four-tier Claude constitution?", "options": [ "Helpful > broadly ethical > platform rules > avoid catastrophe", "Avoid catastrophic outcomes > follow Anthropic guidelines > broadly ethical > helpful and candid", "Broadly ethical > helpful > platform rules > avoid catastrophe", "Platform rules > avoid catastrophe > helpful > broadly ethical" ], "correct": 1, "explanation": "" }, { "stage": "post", "question": "Which failure mode is NOT necessarily fixed by switching from RLHF to RLAIF?", "options": [ "Labeler scarcity", "Labeler cost", "Reward hacking / Goodhart's Law", "Labeler psychological inconsistency" ], "correct": 2, "explanation": "" }, { "stage": "post", "question": "What is the headline shift between Constitutional Classifiers v1 and v2 (2026)?", "options": [ "v2 increased compute overhead from 1% to 23.7%", "v2 removed the classifier and relied on constitution alone", "v2 dropped compute overhead from 23.7% to about 1% with low successful attack rate", "v2 only runs on input, not output" ], "correct": 2, "explanation": "" } ] }