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The document establishes that Command R models are not recommended for consequential individual decisions in financial services, employment, and housing without human oversight, and identifies social scoring, inciting violence, and misinformation generation as prohibited use cases governed by Cohere's Usage Guidelines and customer agreements.
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This provision defines the operational boundary between permitted and prohibited deployments of Command R models, and the prohibited categories directly intersect with high-risk AI application classifications under the EU AI Act and related regulatory frameworks applicable to automated decision-making.
The agreement establishes that use of Command R models for decisions affecting financial services access, employment, and housing without human oversight is not a recommended use case. The document identifies social scoring, inciting violence, and misinformation generation as prohibited uses governed by Cohere's Usage Guidelines and customer agreements.
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"We do not recommend using the Command R models on their own for decisions that could have a significant impact on individuals, including those related to access to financial services, employment, and housing. Cohere's Usage Guidelines and customer agreements contain details about prohibited use cases, like social scoring, inciting violence or harm, and misinformation or other political manipulation.Excerpt from Cohere's Responsible Use Policy
1. REGULATORY LANDSCAPE: The prohibited use cases described engage the EU AI Act's high-risk AI system classifications, which include AI systems used in employment, credit, and housing decisions and impose conformity assessment, transparency, and human oversight obligations. The document's prohibition on social scoring also aligns with the EU AI Act's unacceptable risk category. GDPR Article 22 governs automated individual decision-making with legal or similarly significant effects, relevant to the financial services and employment contexts named. FTC enforcement authority over deceptive practices is relevant to the misinformation prohibition. 2. GOVERNANCE EXPOSURE: High for customers deploying Command R in regulated sectors. The provision does not constitute regulatory compliance certification; customers remain independently responsible for assessing whether their specific deployment qualifies as a high-risk AI system under applicable law. The document explicitly states these are recommendations and contractual prohibitions, not compliance attestations. 3. JURISDICTION FLAGS: EU and EEA deployments face the highest regulatory exposure given the EU AI Act's explicit treatment of employment, credit, and housing AI systems as high-risk. California's CCPA and automated decision-making regulations may also apply to consumer-facing deployments. Illinois and New York have emerging automated decision-making disclosure requirements relevant to employment contexts. 4. CONTRACT AND VENDOR IMPLICATIONS: Customers building applications in the named prohibited categories should ensure their deployment agreements with Cohere explicitly address compliance responsibility allocation. The document references customer agreements as the authoritative source for prohibited use case details, which procurement teams should obtain and review prior to deployment in regulated sectors. 5. COMPLIANCE CONSIDERATIONS: Compliance teams should map their specific application use cases against the prohibited categories named in this document and in Cohere's Usage Guidelines. For EU deployments, a formal high-risk AI system assessment under the EU AI Act may be warranted. Human-in-the-loop review mechanisms should be documented and implemented for any application touching financial services, employment, or housing decisions, consistent with the document's stated recommendations.
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This provision defines the operational boundary between permitted and prohibited deployments of Command R models, and the prohibited categories directly intersect with high-risk AI application classifications under the EU AI Act and related regulatory frameworks applicable to automated decision-making.
The agreement establishes that use of Command R models for decisions affecting financial services access, employment, and housing without human oversight is not a recommended use case. The document identifies social scoring, inciting violence, and misinformation generation as prohibited uses governed by Cohere's Usage Guidelines and customer agreements.
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