Anthropic bans ‘needless abusive or cruel behavior’ towards Claude
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Usage policies are drifting from pure safety and compliance into norms about how humans should relate to AI systems. If you deploy assistants internally, expect similar guardrails to become part of HR and acceptable-use policy conversations, not just model governance.
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