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Cohere bars a category of high-stakes automated decision-making, covering domains such as employment, education, and healthcare, where algorithmic outputs could directly affect individuals' life circumstances.
Interpretive note: The excerpt is framed as item (2) in a list, suggesting other prohibited uses exist in adjacent items not quoted here. The canonical claim captures only what this excerpt establishes.
Readers are prohibited from using Cohere Services to power automated determinations about individuals in rights- or safety-affecting domains.
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"(2) that use the Cohere Services for automated determinations about individuals in domains that affect their rights, safety, or access to essential services and benefits (e.g., employment, education, healthcare...)Excerpt from Cohere's Usage Policy
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Cohere bars a category of high-stakes automated decision-making, covering domains such as employment, education, and healthcare, where algorithmic outputs could directly affect individuals' life circumstances.
Readers are prohibited from using Cohere Services to power automated determinations about individuals in rights- or safety-affecting domains.
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