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Prohibition On High-Stakes Automated Decisions

High severity High confidence Explicit document language Common · 217 of 352 platforms

Key Facts

Does xAI prohibit high-stakes automated decisions that affect a person's safety?
xAI prohibits users from making high-stakes automated decisions that affect a person's safety, legal or material rights, or well-being, such as decisions about financial credit, education, employment, housing, insurance, legal matters, or medical matters.
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ConductAtlas Analysis

Why it matters (compliance & governance perspective)

This prohibition prevents the Service from being used as a decision-making tool in contexts where errors could cause serious harm to individuals.

Consumer impact (what this means for users)

Users are prohibited from deploying the Service to make automated decisions in high-stakes domains affecting individuals' safety, rights, or well-being.

How other platforms handle this

Anthropic Medium

Request a review of decisions made solely based on automated processing of personal data.

Walmart Medium

Obtain information about automated processing of personal information to render a decision by emailing globalprivacy@wal-mart.com.

Mailchimp Medium

Mailchimp uses a combination of automated and human detection review processes to ensure that Members are complying with our Standard Terms of Use and this Acceptable Use Policy.

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Making high-stakes automated decisions that affect a person's safety, legal or material rights, or well-being (such as making financial credit, educational, employment, housing, insurance, legal, medical, or other important decisions about or for them)

Excerpt from xAI's Terms of Service

Applicable regulations

EU AI Act
European Union
California AB 2013 AI Training Data Transparency
US-CA
Colorado AI Act
US-CO
EU AI Act - High Risk Provisions
EU
GDPR
European Union
Texas AI Act
Texas, USA
Trump Executive Order on AI Policy Framework
US
UK GDPR
United Kingdom

Provision details

Document information
Document
xAI Terms of Service
Entity
xAI
Document last updated
May 5, 2026
Tracking information
First tracked
May 8, 2026
Last verified
May 12, 2026
Record ID
CA-P-009785
Document ID
CA-D-00327
Evidence Provenance
Source URL
Wayback Machine
Content hash (SHA-256)
fbcda0ec0bb33eba1935039e132a19676af37212d42f1dfa3668d5a855803878
Analysis generated
May 8, 2026 10:51 UTC
Methodology
Evidence
✓ Snapshot stored   ✓ Hash verified
Citation Record
Entity: xAI
Document: xAI Terms of Service
Record ID: CA-P-009785
Captured: 2026-05-08 10:51:01 UTC
SHA-256: fbcda0ec0bb33eba…
URL: https://conductatlas.com/platform/xai/xai-terms-of-service/provision/CA-P-009785/prohibition-on-high-stakes-automated-decisions/
Accessed: Sept. 19, 2026
Permanent archival reference. Stable identifier suitable for legal filings, compliance documentation, and research citation.
Classification
Severity
High
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Frequently Asked Questions

What does xAI's Prohibition On High-Stakes Automated Decisions clause do?

This prohibition prevents the Service from being used as a decision-making tool in contexts where errors could cause serious harm to individuals.

How does this clause affect you?

Users are prohibited from deploying the Service to make automated decisions in high-stakes domains affecting individuals' safety, rights, or well-being.

How many platforms have this type of clause?

ConductAtlas has identified this type of provision across 217 platforms. See the full comparison.

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