cruelty

Anthropic on Thursday moved to bar users from treating its Claude AI system with needless cruelty, amid a growing philosophical debate over whether artificial intelligence can be conscious.

From Barron's ● Oct. 8, 2026

He also has expressed frustration over what he sees as a lack of enforcement of animal cruelty laws, especially on Skid Row.

From Los Angeles Times ● Oct. 1, 2026

She has acknowledged the influence of Dickens’s “outrage, inventiveness and empathy,” and her sprawling books—larger-than-life, tragedy prone and sometimes ponderously socially conscious—depict systemic cruelty and heroic resilience.

From The Wall Street Journal ● Sep. 28, 2026

If each conspiracy theory evolved from a dark mind, if human cruelty were the driving force behind all of this, there would be little hope for us.

From Slate ● Sep. 22, 2026

I mean the insidious, demoralizing fear of betrayal, of treachery, of cruelty, of being silenced.

From "Code Name Verity" by Elizabeth Wein

I remember thinking her diatribe about the injustice of Hester Prynne’s shunning would segue into the cruelties Charles faced with the goal of inspiring someone to defy the blacklist.

From The Wall Street Journal ● Jun. 10, 2026

For Nikki, who died Monday at 81, our future depends upon our willingness to learn from everyday Black folks’ refusal to accept status-quo cruelties as incontrovertible realities.

From Los Angeles Times ● Dec. 15, 2024

But those cuts are less likely to matter to the polemicists who will not experience the institutionalized cruelties firsthand.

From Salon ● Nov. 4, 2024

But he also pointed to the cruelties of man.

From BBC ● May 13, 2024

But beauty can make people forgive a thousand cruelties.

From "Warcross" by Marie Lu