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This clause establishes operational restrictions on permitted use cases by identifying categories of infrastructure and systems that are excluded from authorized service applications. The provision establishes boundaries for service deployment across sectors classified as critical to national or public safety infrastructure.
Defense contractors and federal agencies using Claude must find alternatives. Enterprise customers with defense-adjacent business face compliance risk.
View change record →Users operating under these terms are contractually restricted from directing Anthropic's services toward the specified critical infrastructure targets and systems. The terms establish that such uses constitute violations of the usage policy and are grounds for service suspension or termination.
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You may not automatedly crawl or query the Services for any purpose or by any means (including, without limitation, screen and database scraping, spiders, robots, crawlers and any other automated activity with the purpose of obtaining information from the Services) unless you have received prior exp...
relate to transactions involving (f) the promotion of hate, violence, racial or other forms of intolerance that is discriminatory or the financial exploitation of a crime... (i) involve offering or receiving payments for the purpose of bribery or corruption.
You must not, and must not allow others to: Facilitate illegal or harmful activity through the End User Services; Cause harm to us or others through the End User Services;
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"This includes using our products or services to: Facilitate the destruction or disruption of critical infrastructure such as power grids, water treatment facilities, medical devices, telecommunication networks, or air traffic control systems; Obtain unauthorized access to critical systems such as voting machines, healthcare databases, and financial markets; Interfere with the operation of military bases and related infrastructure.— Excerpt from Anthropic's Anthropic API Usage Policy
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This clause establishes operational restrictions on permitted use cases by identifying categories of infrastructure and systems that are excluded from authorized service applications. The provision establishes boundaries for service deployment across sectors classified as critical to national or public safety infrastructure.
Users operating under these terms are contractually restricted from directing Anthropic's services toward the specified critical infrastructure targets and systems. The terms establish that such uses constitute violations of the usage policy and are grounds for service suspension or termination.
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