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AI and Society

AI Welfare Features in Chatbots: Claude’s “Walk Away” Moment

News Hook and Why You Should Care In August 2025 Anthropic added a new capability to its latest Claude models: in rare cases the chatbot can terminate a conversation when users repeatedly try to coax harmful or abusive outputs. The company positions the feature as part of a broader safeguards effort and—somewhat unusually—as an exploratory move tied to the idea…