Partners seeking access to Claude with adjusted safeguards beyond the standard deployment must undergo an enhanced due diligence review assessed against two criteria: overall trustworthiness and the beneficial nature of their use case.
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This provision establishes a gatekeeping mechanism for adjusted safeguard access, requiring partners to satisfy Anthropic's assessment of trustworthiness and use-case benefit before receiving modified deployment conditions, with Anthropic retaining discretion over both criteria.
Interpretive note: The specific standards, procedures, and appeal mechanisms for the enhanced due diligence assessment are not defined in this document, creating ambiguity regarding the criteria partners must satisfy.
Under this provision, access to Claude with non-standard safeguard configurations requires Anthropic's approval through an enhanced due diligence process, with eligibility determined by Anthropic's assessment of the partner's trustworthiness and use-case justification.
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Compare across platforms →"To balance security concerns with the need for flexibility, we are developing a tiered access system that allows for nuanced control over safeguard adjustments. At the core of this system will be an enhanced due diligence process under which we will evaluate potential partners based on two key criteria: their overall trustworthiness and the beneficial nature of their use-case.Excerpt from Anthropic's Responsible Scaling Policy
1) REGULATORY LANDSCAPE: The due diligence process for adjusted safeguard access may engage with the EU AI Act's requirements for providers to implement access management for high-risk AI capabilities.
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This provision establishes a gatekeeping mechanism for adjusted safeguard access, requiring partners to satisfy Anthropic's assessment of trustworthiness and use-case benefit before receiving modified deployment conditions, with Anthropic retaining discretion over both criteria.
Under this provision, access to Claude with non-standard safeguard configurations requires Anthropic's approval through an enhanced due diligence process, with eligibility determined by Anthropic's assessment of the partner's trustworthiness and use-case justification.
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