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Anthropic
· Anthropic API Usage Policy
Before any AI-generated recommendation in a designated high-risk domain (legal, medical, financial, credit, insurance, housing, employment, education, healthcare access, public benefits, legal status) reaches an affected individual, a qualified human with relevant expertise and applicable licensure must review and have authority to modify that recommendation. The reviewing person retains accountability for the final recommendation....
Why it matters: This provision establishes an affirmative operational obligation on operators and developers deploying Claude in twelve enumerated high-stakes categories, requiring documented human oversight workflows before AI output is acted upon or delivered. The clause specifies licensure requirements by reference to applicable law, meaning compliance exposure varies by jurisdiction and professional domain....
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Anthropic
· Anthropic API Usage Policy
The AUP prohibits using any outputs generated by Anthropic's models to train other AI models, including through distillation or scraping techniques, unless the user has received prior authorization from Anthropic....
Why it matters: This provision directly restricts a common developer workflow in which API outputs are used as training data for fine-tuning or building derivative models, and requires affirmative advance authorization from Anthropic before any such use is permitted....
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Anthropic
· Anthropic API Usage Policy
Anthropic states that it will report detected CSAM, related facilitation activity, or imminent risk scenarios involving minors to relevant authorities, and applies a uniform definition of minor as any person under 18 regardless of jurisdiction....
Why it matters: This provision discloses Anthropic's affirmative practice of reporting CSAM-related detections to law enforcement or equivalent authorities, and establishes a platform-wide age definition of 18 regardless of local age of majority definitions, which has compliance implications for operators deploying Claude in jurisdictions with differing age-related standards....
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Anthropic
· Anthropic API Usage Policy
The AUP prohibits using Claude to make or recommend decisions in criminal justice processes, to conduct non-consensual surveillance of individuals including via facial recognition or predictive policing, and to build or enhance surveillance infrastructure for these prohibited uses....
Why it matters: This provision categorically excludes a range of law enforcement, criminal justice, and surveillance applications from permitted use, establishing explicit prohibitions on facial recognition, battlefield management, predictive policing, and non-consensual individual tracking as distinct named examples....
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Anthropic
· Anthropic API Usage Policy
When Claude's outputs control hardware capable of physical harm (including autonomous vehicles, surgical devices, industrial machinery, and hazardous materials systems), a qualified human observer must maintain real-time ability to halt operation, and all physical safety limits must be enforced by hardware or software independent of the AI model's output....
Why it matters: This provision establishes hardware-level architectural requirements for AI-physical system integrations, mandating that safety limits be enforced outside the model control loop and that fail-safe behavior occur upon loss of connection to Anthropic's services, which has direct implications for robotics, medical device, industrial automation, and autonomous vehicle deployments....
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Anthropic
· Anthropic API Usage Policy
The AUP categorically prohibits using Claude at any stage of CBRN weapons development, including synthesis, design, acquisition, testing, or deployment planning for biological, chemical, radiological, or nuclear weapons, their precursors, or delivery systems, as well as modification of biological or chemical agents to enhance harm potential....
Why it matters: This provision establishes an absolute prohibition covering the full lifecycle of CBRN weapons development activity and explicitly names weapons-critical technology categories such as fissile material production and enrichment, creating a categorical exclusion for defense and dual-use research operators in these domains....
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Anthropic
· Anthropic Privacy Policy
The policy discloses that Anthropic may collect facial geometry templates as part of identity or age verification processes, and acknowledges these may constitute biometric data in some jurisdictions. Collection is described as occurring only when users choose to verify their identity....
Why it matters: This provision establishes a basis for collecting biometric identifiers including facial geometry templates, which are subject to heightened regulatory requirements in multiple U.S. states and internationally. The policy's acknowledgment that this data 'may be considered biometric data in some jurisdictions' indicates awareness of jurisdictional variation but does not specify which consent or notice obligations are triggered in each relevant jurisdiction....