By empowering Claude to exit abusive conversations, Anthropic is contributing to ongoing debates about AI safety, ethics, and human–machine interactions. The update represents an attempt to align advanced AI behaviour with responsible usage while reducing risks that could arise from misuse.

Anthropic has given its chatbot, Claude, the ability to end conversations it deems harmful. You likely won't encounter the feature, however.

Anthropic says new capabilities allow its latest AI models to protect themselves by ending abusive conversations.