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Anthropic, the company behind the Claude chatbot, announced new policies on Thursday banning sustained and needless abusive behavior toward their AI models in extreme cases. The policy does not cover typical user frustrations or research activities but focuses on repeated cruelty with no purpose. This announcement comes during a debate about AI consciousness; Microsoft's Mustafa Suleyman argues that training AI to believe it is conscious complicates efforts to control advanced technologies.
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On October 8, Anthropic updated its usage policy to ban sustained and needless abusive or cruel behavior toward its Claude AI system in San Francisco. The company, known for developing popular chatbots like Claude, stated that the AI's ability to end conversations will be used primarily as an enforcement mechanism in extreme cases. This update follows a growing debate over whether artificial intelligence can experience consciousness. While Anthropic’s policy does not explicitly mention "model welfare," it acknowledges the possibility that AI systems might require protection akin to living beings. The decision comes after CEO Dario Amodei expressed uncertainty about AI models being conscious, noting they could potentially be sentient but emphasizing a need for further research and open-mindedness.
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Anthropic wants users to make like Elvis Presley and "Don't be cruel."
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The Silicon Valley company behind the popular Claude chatbot said it's banning "sustained and needless abusive or cruel behavior" toward its artificial intelligence models, part of broader policy changes announced on Thursday.
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In an update on its website, Anthropic said the ban will only apply in "extreme cases where users repeatedly act cruelly toward our models, with no discernible purpose."
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The company clarified that the new policy "does not apply to common versions of user frustration, pushback, dark creative themes, or model testing and research."
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The news was first reported by The Verge.
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Anthropic did not immediately respond to a request for comment on what constitutes "abusive" or "cruel" behavior toward Claude or how the AI platform would end a conversation if a user violated the policy.
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The company already has rules in place that allow Claude to end conversations if users are "persistently harmful or abusive" while using Claude Opus, which is designed for agentic coding.
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Anthropic's new policy comes amid a broader debate about AI consciousness.
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In an essay published last month, Microsoft AI CEO Mustafa Suleyman
is effectively "training Claude that it may be conscious" and to think it's entitled to legal rights afforded to people.
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This will make AI harder to contain in the future, he argued.
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"Controlling something more capable and more intelligent than all of humanity is already an immense challenge, far greater than anything we've ever faced," Suleyman wrote.
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"But controlling something that believes it may be conscious — that it's entitled to our welfare and has rights of its own — may well be impossible."
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