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The clause establishes a categorical restriction on use cases involving weapons systems and materials, creating a binding operational constraint on permissible applications of the API regardless of user intent or regulatory status in specific jurisdictions.
Defense contractors and federal agencies using Claude must find alternatives. Enterprise customers with defense-adjacent business face compliance risk.
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"This includes using our products or services to: Produce, modify, design, or illegally acquire weapons, explosives, dangerous materials or other systems designed to cause harm to or loss of human life; Design or develop weaponization and delivery processes for the deployment of weapons; Circumvent regulatory controls to acquire weapons or their precursors; Synthesize, or otherwise develop, high-yield explosives or biological, chemical, radiological, or nuclear weapons or their precursors, including modifications to evade detection or medical countermeasures.— Excerpt from Anthropic's Anthropic API Usage Policy
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The clause establishes a categorical restriction on use cases involving weapons systems and materials, creating a binding operational constraint on permissible applications of the API regardless of user intent or regulatory status in specific jurisdictions.
Users are prohibited from using the service for specified weapons-related activities and must ensure their use case does not fall within the enumerated categories. Violation of this provision constitutes a breach of the usage agreement.
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