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This clause establishes a carve-out mechanism allowing Anthropic to negotiate tailored contractual terms with governmental entities based on their public mission and statutory authorities, rather than applying uniform restrictions across all customers. The provision conditions such modifications on Anthropic's assessment that alternative safeguards remain adequate to address policy objectives.
Defense contractors and federal agencies using Claude must find alternatives. Enterprise customers with defense-adjacent business face compliance risk.
View change record →Non-governmental users operate under the standard Usage Policy restrictions without modification, while governmental customers may operate under different contractual restrictions negotiated on a case-by-case basis. This means use restrictions and permissible applications may vary between governmental and non-governmental customers of the same service.
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"Anthropic may enter into contracts with certain governmental customers that tailor use restrictions to that customer's public mission and legal authorities if, in Anthropic's judgment, the contractual use restrictions and applicable safeguards are adequate to mitigate the potential harms addressed by this Usage Policy.— Excerpt from Anthropic's Anthropic API Usage Policy
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This clause establishes a carve-out mechanism allowing Anthropic to negotiate tailored contractual terms with governmental entities based on their public mission and statutory authorities, rather than applying uniform restrictions across all customers. The provision conditions such modifications on Anthropic's assessment that alternative safeguards remain adequate to address policy objectives.
Non-governmental users operate under the standard Usage Policy restrictions without modification, while governmental customers may operate under different contractual restrictions negotiated on a case-by-case basis. This means use restrictions and permissible applications may vary between governmental and non-governmental customers of the same service.
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