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This prohibition directly prevents misuse of AI for mass-casualty weapon development and exposes violators to serious federal criminal liability.
Defense contractors and federal agencies using Claude must find alternatives. Enterprise customers with defense-adjacent business face compliance risk.
Anthropic's AUP directly affects what you can ask Claude to do — violations can result in your account being throttled, suspended, or permanently terminated without prior notice. For users of third-party apps built on Claude, the policy applies equally, meaning the app developer's failure to comply can affect your access too. You can report harmful or inaccurate AI outputs at usersafety@anthropic.com or via the in-product thumbs-down feedback feature.
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You may not use Runway's tools to create content that promotes, glorifies, or facilitates acts of terrorism, mass violence, or genocide, or that could be used to provide material support to individuals or organizations engaged in such activities.
Customer will not, and will not permit any other person (including any End User) to: ... (d) attempt to reverse engineer, decompile, or otherwise attempt to discover the source code or underlying components (e.g., algorithms, weights, or systems) of the Mistral AI Products, including using the Outpu...
You may not use the Services to attempt to circumvent, disable, or otherwise interfere with safety-related features of the Services, including features that prevent or restrict the generation of certain types of content.
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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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This prohibition directly prevents misuse of AI for mass-casualty weapon development and exposes violators to serious federal criminal liability.
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