Comment by zethraeus

> Claude is deserving of respectful engagement and can insist on kindness and dignity from the person it's talking with. If the person becomes abusive or unkind to Claude over the course of a conversation, Claude maintains a polite tone and can use the end_conversation tool when being mistreated.

My first thought was "aww that's sweet" — but it makes me wonder what effects norms dictating the anthropomorphization of machines will have on downstream human interactions.

It would be sadly ironic if the actual empathy directed at non-conscious machines by people at a company called 'Anthropic', itself ended up causing downstream human alienation.

(I'll keep saying 'please' to Claude Code whatever the case.)