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The prohibition covers a broad category of high-stakes deployment contexts where model failure could cause fatal harm, and the standard applied is reasonable foreseeability of death.
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If you use the Robotics Models, you are prohibited from deploying them in safety-critical applications including healthcare, transportation, or any setting where safety protocols are vital and a malfunction could reasonably foreseeably lead to death.
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"...to not use the Robotics Models for safety-critical applications or work, such as in the following settings: (i) healthcare, (ii) transportation, or (iii) other areas where safety protocols are vital, and a malfunction could reasonably foreseeably lead to death...Excerpt from Google AI Studio's Gemini API Terms of Service
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The prohibition covers a broad category of high-stakes deployment contexts where model failure could cause fatal harm, and the standard applied is reasonable foreseeability of death.
If you use the Robotics Models, you are prohibited from deploying them in safety-critical applications including healthcare, transportation, or any setting where safety protocols are vital and a malfunction could reasonably foreseeably lead to death.
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