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.

The Claude AI models Opus 4 and 4.1 will only end harmful conversations in “rare, extreme cases of persistently harmful or abusive user interactions.”

Anthropic has announced a new experimental safety feature that allows its Claude Opus 4 and 4.1 artificial intelligence models to terminate conversations in rare, persistently harmful or abusive scenarios.