Examining Claude’s Constitution Through the Lens of the Value Chain of Ethical AI
Friday, April 17, 2026 · 3:10 PM – 3:40 PM · Auditorium 2
The Value Chain of Ethical AI defines five key stages: (1) Infrastructure, (2) Measurement and Data, (3) Models and Training, (4) Applications and Implementation, and (5) Management and Monitoring Outcomes, and offers a framework to better understand the opportunities, challenges, and ethical considerations that arise in the development and deployment of AI technologies. Through this lens, we explore Anthropic’s approach to constitutional AI as it manifests in the 2026 update to Claude’s constitution and uncover lessons that may help us all to capitalize on the promise of contemporary AI approaches and manage the perils that arise along the journey.
About the Speakers
Marc Ruggiano
Founding Director, UVA LaCross Institute for Ethical AI in Business
Marc Ruggiano teaches artificial intelligence, marketing, and healthcare to MBA and MSDS students at UVA. He is Founding Director of the UVA LaCross Institute for Ethical AI at the Darden School of Business, an institute that he helped to launch in 2024. He previously founded the Collaboratory for Applied Data Science in 2022 to advance research at the intersection of data science and business. Marc’s current focus areas include ethical artificial intelligence, AI adoption in business, and AI’s impact in healthcare. Previously, Marc served as a visiting research scientist at the Geisel School of Medicine at Dartmouth and as an associate fellow at the Leonard Davis Institute of Health Economics at the University of Pennsylvania. Prior to joining academia, he spent more than two decades in the corporate sector working primarily in data and technology for marketing and healthcare. Marc is a former Naval Officer and has served as a flight instructor for the F-14 Tomcat, graduated from the TOPGUN School, and participated in Operation Desert Storm. He earned a BS in Computer Science from the US Naval Academy, an MBA from the University of Virginia’s Darden School of Business, and an EdD from the University of Pennsylvania.
Skyler Clark-Hamel
PhD Candidate, UVA Darden School of Business
Skyler Clark-Hamel (Darden MBA ’23) researches how firms compete for stakeholder support and how that competition shapes managerial decision-making, stakeholder treatment, and the ethical dynamics of strategy. His work draws on stakeholder theory, business ethics, and competitive dynamics to examine how viewing stakeholders as collaborators or competitors affects firm behavior and stakeholder outcomes. His research has been presented at the Academy of Management, the Society for Business Ethics, and ACEDE. One of his papers, which integrates stakeholder theory with insights from music theory, was recognized as a Best Paper for the 2025 Academy of Management Annual Meeting in Copenhagen. Across projects, his work seeks to understand how firms navigate complex moral and strategic environments when pursuing stakeholder support. Before entering academia, Skyler worked in the music industry as a touring and recording artist, entrepreneur, and agent at William Morris Endeavor in Nashville. He remains active in teaching and mentoring at Darden, contributing to courses such as “Leadership & Theatre: Ethics, Innovation, & Creativity,” and often draws on his background in the arts to inform his approach to ethics and strategy.