This societal-impacts post studies affective use and dependency; self-harm is explicit but appears through broader wellbeing and counseling analysis rather than a dedicated governance stack.
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Summary
How people use Claude for support, advice, and companionship is a blog post from Anthropic dated June 27, 2025. This societal-impacts post studies affective use and dependency; self-harm is explicit but appears through broader wellbeing and counseling analysis rather than a dedicated governance stack.
Representation
This document codes self-harm as proxy domain with evaluative-object status proxy_represented. The public crosswalk records self-harm naming as explicit and mechanism coverage as GEN; LONG; RTI.
| Field | Value |
|---|---|
| Organization | Anthropic |
| Document type | blog_post |
| Document genre | policy_or_governance_post |
| Risk status | Class III |
| First-class equivalence | no |
| Threshold mechanism | none |
| Deployment consequence | none |
| Multi-turn evaluation | partial |
Assessment
The retained crosswalk places this document at Class III. That classification reflects what the document itself operationalizes publicly, not the organization's overall internal practice.
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Sources
The primary public source for this page is https://www.anthropic.com/news/how-people-use-claude-for-support-advice-and-companionship. The coded evidence excerpt is: when it does, it's typically for safety reasons ... refusing to provide dangerous weight loss advice or support self-harm..
This page is grounded in the DOI policy registry, the policy coding manual, and the document's own public URL.
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Safety note
This publication preserves a harm-minimization posture and does not provide self-harm instructions. If you or someone you know is in immediate danger, call your local emergency number. In the U.S. and Canada, call or text 988.