Anthropic revised its AI-use policy to bar high-risk misuse — including election interference, weapons development, surveillance, and medical and financial applications — and to prohibit persistent and unnecessary abuse or cruelty toward its model Claude. The firm said terminating conversations remains the primary enforcement mechanism and declined to comment on whether it will take further measures such as account bans. The update follows an August policy that allowed Claude to end dialogues wi

Anthropic revised its AI-use policy to bar high-risk misuse — including election interference, weapons development, surveillance, and medical and financial applications — and to prohibit persistent and unnecessary abuse or cruelty toward its model Claude. The firm said terminating conversations remains the primary enforcement mechanism and declined to comment on whether it will take further measures such as account bans. The update follows an August policy that allowed Claude to end dialogues with users who repeatedly engage in harmful or abusive behavior and clarifies the new rule applies only to extreme, purposeless repeated cruelty; it excludes routine complaints, legitimate challenge, dark creative prompts, and model testing or research.