Claude · Anthropic
Building Safeguards For Claude
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Claude empowers millions of users to tackle complex challenges, spark creativity, and deepen their understanding of the world.
Key facts
- Sonnet 5 delivers frontier performance across coding, agents, and professional work at scale
- Safeguards designs their Usage Policy —the framework that defines how Claude should and shouldn’t be used
- The team use a combination of automated systems and human review to detect harm and enforce their Usage Policy once models are deployed
- Safeguarding AI use is too important for any one organization to tackle alone
Summary
This is where their Safeguards team comes in: they identify potential misuse, respond to threats, and build defenses that help keep Claude both helpful and safe. The team operate across multiple layers: developing policies, influencing model training, testing for harmful outputs, enforcing policies in real-time, and identifying novel misuses and attacks. Safeguards designs their Usage Policy —the framework that defines how Claude should and shouldn’t be used. Unified Harm Framework: This evolving framework helps their team understand potentially harmful impacts from Claude use across five dimensions: physical, psychological, economic, societal, and individual autonomy.