The policy prohibits using Perplexity's Services to make automated decisions that materially affect individuals in the domains of employment, healthcare, finances, housing, or insurance, or in contexts where errors could affect critical infrastructure or product safety.
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This provision directly restricts high-value enterprise deployment scenarios in regulated industries and requires organizations to assess whether existing or planned Perplexity integrations fall within the prohibited categories before deployment.
Interpretive note: The provision does not define 'materially impact' or specify whether human-in-the-loop review removes a workflow from its scope, creating ambiguity for hybrid decision-making architectures.
Under this clause, users and organizations may not deploy Perplexity outputs to drive automated decisions affecting a person's employment status, healthcare treatment, financial standing, housing eligibility, or insurance coverage. The agreement establishes these restrictions across both consumer-facing and enterprise contexts.
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Compare across platforms →"Make automated decisions about individuals that materially impact them (e.g., decisions regarding their employment, healthcare, finances, housing or insurance) or where errors could be dangerous (e.g., decisions related to the management of critical infrastructure or safety components of products);Excerpt from Perplexity AI's Perplexity Acceptable Use Policy
(1) REGULATORY LANDSCAPE: This provision directly engages the EU AI Act's high-risk AI system classifications, which include employment, healthcare, credit, and essential services decision-making systems.
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This provision directly restricts high-value enterprise deployment scenarios in regulated industries and requires organizations to assess whether existing or planned Perplexity integrations fall within the prohibited categories before deployment.
Under this clause, users and organizations may not deploy Perplexity outputs to drive automated decisions affecting a person's employment status, healthcare treatment, financial standing, housing eligibility, or insurance coverage. The agreement establishes these restrictions across both consumer-facing and enterprise contexts.
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