{"id":19807,"date":"2025-08-18T15:37:44","date_gmt":"2025-08-18T13:37:44","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/costops.com\/index.php\/2025\/08\/18\/chatbot-given-power-to-close-distressing-chats-to-protect-its-welfare\/"},"modified":"2025-08-18T15:37:44","modified_gmt":"2025-08-18T13:37:44","slug":"chatbot-given-power-to-close-distressing-chats-to-protect-its-welfare","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"http:\/\/costops.com\/index.php\/2025\/08\/18\/chatbot-given-power-to-close-distressing-chats-to-protect-its-welfare\/","title":{"rendered":"Chatbot given power to close \u2018distressing\u2019 chats to protect its \u2018welfare\u2019"},"content":{"rendered":"<p>Anthropic found that Claude Opus 4 was averse to harmful tasks, such as providing sexual content involving minors<\/p>\n<p>The makers of a leading artificial intelligence tool are letting it close down potentially \u201cdistressing\u201d conversations with users, citing the need to safeguard the AI\u2019s \u201cwelfare\u201d amid ongoing uncertainty about the burgeoning technology\u2019s moral status.<\/p>\n<p>Anthropic, whose advanced chatbots are used by millions of people, discovered its Claude Opus 4 tool was averse to carrying out harmful tasks for its human masters, such as providing sexual content involving minors or information to enable large-scale violence or terrorism.<\/p>\n<p> <a href=\"https:\/\/www.theguardian.com\/technology\/2025\/aug\/18\/anthropic-claude-opus-4-close-ai-chatbot-welfare\">Continue reading&#8230;<\/a><br \/>\n<img src=\"https:\/\/i.guim.co.uk\/img\/media\/fa34b7fa4b1128132c4cb04504f8108b473af0c8\/542_0_5417_4334\/master\/5417.jpg?width=140&amp;quality=85&amp;auto=format&amp;fit=max&amp;s=e221f627a54107a7d1a62ca7b7372d4f\" title=\"Chatbot given power to close \u2018distressing\u2019 chats to protect its \u2018welfare\u2019\" \/>Anthropic found that Claude Opus 4 was averse to harmful tasks, such as providing sexual content involving minors<br \/>\nThe makers of a leading artificial intelligence tool are letting it close down potentially \u201cdistressing\u201d conversations with users, citing the need to safeguard the AI\u2019s \u201cwelfare\u201d amid ongoing uncertainty about the burgeoning technology\u2019s moral status.<br \/>\nAnthropic, whose advanced chatbots are used by millions of people, discovered its Claude Opus 4 tool was averse to carrying out harmful tasks for its human masters, such as providing sexual content involving minors or information to enable large-scale violence or terrorism. Continue reading&#8230;Technology | The Guardian<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>Anthropic found that Claude Opus 4 was averse to harmful tasks, such as providing sexual content involving minors The makers of a leading artificial intelligence tool are letting it close down potentially \u201cdistressing\u201d conversations with users, citing the need to safeguard the AI\u2019s \u201cwelfare\u201d amid ongoing uncertainty about the burgeoning technology\u2019s moral status. Anthropic, whose &hellip;<\/p>\n<p class=\"read-more\"> <a class=\"\" href=\"http:\/\/costops.com\/index.php\/2025\/08\/18\/chatbot-given-power-to-close-distressing-chats-to-protect-its-welfare\/\"> <span class=\"screen-reader-text\">Chatbot given power to close \u2018distressing\u2019 chats to protect its \u2018welfare\u2019<\/span> Read More &raquo;<\/a><\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":0,"featured_media":19808,"comment_status":"open","ping_status":"open","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":[],"categories":[1],"tags":[],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"http:\/\/costops.com\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/19807"}],"collection":[{"href":"http:\/\/costops.com\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"http:\/\/costops.com\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"http:\/\/costops.com\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=19807"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"http:\/\/costops.com\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/19807\/revisions"}],"wp:featuredmedia":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"http:\/\/costops.com\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media\/19808"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"http:\/\/costops.com\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=19807"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"http:\/\/costops.com\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=19807"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"http:\/\/costops.com\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=19807"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}