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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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"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. Depending on the use cases for which safeguards are adjusted, sector-specific regulations such as HIPAA, financial services regulations, or export control laws may also be implicated. 2) GOVERNANCE EXPOSURE: Medium. Anthropic retains discretionary authority over both assessment criteria (trustworthiness and beneficial use-case), and the document does not specify objective standards, appeal mechanisms, or transparency procedures for due diligence decisions. This discretionary structure may create operational uncertainty for partners dependent on adjusted safeguard access. 3) JURISDICTION FLAGS: Export control laws, including US EAR provisions, may be relevant where adjusted safeguard access enables use cases involving sensitive technologies such as CBRN research. EU/EEA partners should assess whether adjusted safeguard configurations affect their own compliance obligations under the EU AI Act or sector-specific regulations. 4) CONTRACT AND VENDOR IMPLICATIONS: B2B contracts with Anthropic that rely on adjusted safeguard configurations should address the conditions under which those configurations may be modified or revoked, as the RSP reserves Anthropic's right to adjust safeguards based on its own assessments. Procurement teams should assess the operational dependency created by reliance on non-standard safeguard access. 5) COMPLIANCE CONSIDERATIONS: Organizations seeking adjusted safeguard access should document their due diligence submissions to Anthropic and maintain records of approvals as part of their own vendor governance and regulatory compliance documentation.
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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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