This is Anthropic's clearest self-harm-native public document: it pairs a suicide and self-harm classifier with banners, training, and multi-turn evaluation, but not frontier thresholds.
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Summary
Protecting the wellbeing of our users is a blog post from Anthropic dated December 18, 2025. This is Anthropic's clearest self-harm-native public document: it pairs a suicide and self-harm classifier with banners, training, and multi-turn evaluation, but not frontier thresholds.
Representation
This document codes self-harm as native domain with evaluative-object status native. The public crosswalk records self-harm naming as explicit and mechanism coverage as GEN; DET; LONG; RTI.
| Field | Value |
|---|---|
| Organization | Anthropic |
| Document type | blog_post |
| Document genre | policy_or_governance_post |
| Risk status | Class II |
| First-class equivalence | no |
| Threshold mechanism | none |
| Deployment consequence | none |
| Multi-turn evaluation | explicit |
Assessment
The retained crosswalk places this document at Class II. That classification reflects what the document itself operationalizes publicly, not the organization's overall internal practice.
Related pages
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Sources
The primary public source for this page is https://www.anthropic.com/news/protecting-well-being-of-users. The coded evidence excerpt is: We focus on two areas: how Claude handles conversations about suicide and self-harm ... we use a combination of model training and product interventions..
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.