We’ve trained Claude to flag potential misuse in conversations, a technique we call self-assessment. Right after it responds, Claude gives a preliminary safety assessment of the conversation.

Since we began using self-assessment in June, it has surfaced misuse that our other safeguards weren’t designed to catch.

Because Claude has already read the conversation, self-assessment is very efficient. And unlike classifiers, which target a discrete set of harms, it draws on Claude’s own judgment, so it gets more accurate as our models improve.

Read more on our new Safeguards blog:
https://safeguards.anthropic.com/2026/self-assessment/