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This prohibition covers facilitation, not only direct action, meaning any use of Anthropic's products or services that assists or enables attacks on listed critical infrastructure categories is prohibited.
Defense contractors and federal agencies using Claude must find alternatives. Enterprise customers with defense-adjacent business face compliance risk.
View change record →Anthropic's products and services may not be used to facilitate destruction or disruption of critical infrastructure including the listed systems.
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This prohibition covers facilitation, not only direct action, meaning any use of Anthropic's products or services that assists or enables attacks on listed critical infrastructure categories is prohibited.
Anthropic's products and services may not be used to facilitate destruction or disruption of critical infrastructure including the listed systems.
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