🇫🇷 French, 8 October 2026, conscience-aware
Anthropic Bans Cruel Behavior Towards Its AI Assistant Claude
The company prohibits abusive and gratuitous behavior towards its AI assistant, which it envisions may be conscious.
Anthropic has announced that it will ban users from engaging in ‘abusive or cruel, durable and gratuitous’ behavior towards Claude, its AI assistant.
The company has been exploring the potential for its models to be conscious, and has even discussed the possibility with religious leaders.
The new rule, which takes effect on November 12, will only apply in extreme cases where users repeatedly engage in cruel behavior towards the models without a discernible purpose.