Anthropic Bans 'Cruel' Behavior Against Its Claude AI
The policy takes effect Nov. 12 and keeps Claude conversations as the main penalty for extreme abuse, while tightening rules on elections, weapons and surveillance.
- Anthropic has unveiled a new usage policy banning users from "needless abusive or cruel behaviour" toward its AI chatbot Claude, targeting extreme cases of repeated cruelty with no discernible purpose.
- Earlier this year, Anthropic published a constitution for Claude referencing the model's "self worth" and the potential to have "some functional version of emotions or feelings." The latest update also restricted election interference and weapons development.
- Speaking at the Vatican earlier this year, Anthropic co-founder Christopher Olah said AI systems are "not the cold, calculating robots we were promised" and show internal states mirroring human neuroscience, warranting "ongoing discernment."
- DeepMind co-founder Mustafa Suleyman countered last month that AIs do not experience or suffer and are "internally hollow" sequence completion engines designed solely to follow human instructions.
- The updated rules arrive amid a broader debate on AI moral status, with concerns that firms are creating "digital slaves" who work for free, according to The New York Times.
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The company’s new use policies add for the first time a section on “abuse of our models”
SCIENCE & TECH: Anthropic to users: be nice to Claude AI — new policy bars ‘abusive or cruel behavior’ to tech
Anthropic on Thursday updated its usage policy to bar people from “abusive or cruel behavior” behavior toward its Claude AI – even though it’s not, ya know, actually alive. The strange update came as debate continues to rage about regulating AI, and as oddball corners of Silicon Valley insist the tech has a soul. “We’ve added a prohibition on sustained and needless abusive or cruel behavior toward our models,” Anthropic says on a webpage about t…
Artificial intelligence company Anthropic has banned users from consistently and unreasonably abusive or cruel behavior towards its chatbot Claude.
Anthropic wants users to be nicer to Claude. Here's what smart people are saying about its move to ban abusive behavior.
Anthropic will begin treating sustained, needless abuse of Claude as a usage-policy violation on November 12, and commentators are split on the move.
The company introduces new restrictions to protect its AI models from user abuse and also tightens its rules on propaganda, surveillance and weapons development
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