[andrepd]

> Claude offers a wide range of potential applications for government agencies, both in the present and looking toward the future. Government agencies can use Claude to provide improved citizen services, streamline document review and preparation, enhance policymaking with data-driven insights, and create realistic training scenarios. In the near future, AI could assist in disaster response coordination, enhance public health initiatives, or optimize energy grids for sustainability. Used responsibly, AI has the potential to transform how elected governments serve their constituents and promote peace and security.

> For example, we have crafted a set of contractual exceptions to our general Usage Policy that are carefully calibrated to enable beneficial uses by carefully selected government agencies. These allow Claude to be used for legally authorized foreign intelligence analysis, such as combating human trafficking, identifying covert influence or sabotage campaigns, and providing warning in advance of potential military activities, opening a window for diplomacy to prevent or deter them.

Sometimes I wonder if this is cynicism or if they actually drank their own cool-aid.

[notavalleyman]

Its possible that you may have misunderstood what happened.

Firstly, anthropic made an LLM, exposed it to the internet, and provided these terms of acceptable use.

https://www.anthropic.com/legal/archive/4903a61b-037c-4293-9...

There was no need for cynicism or kool aid at this stage.

Later on, presumably now-ish, anthropic changed the usage policy, to add an exception.

https://support.anthropic.com/en/articles/9528712-exceptions...

> Exceptions to our Usage Policy

> Updated today

The exception is that, starting from now,

> Anthropic may enter into contracts with government customers that tailor use restrictions to that customer’s public mission and legal authorities if, in Anthropic’s judgment, the contractual use restrictions and applicable safeguards are adequate to mitigate the potential harms addressed by this Usage Policy.

I don't think any kool aid or cynicism is needed.

The change is that, if anthropic think the client use case meets the listed humanitarian goals, then the client may use the LLM.

[kwppen]

Modern version of "Do no evil"? Come on, no one believes that sort of thing any longer.

[notavalleyman]

They changed their policy, it now says "if the governmental client can convince anthropic that the government client needs to use Claude for purposes of anti-human trafficking. Then, anthropic will allow the government client to use Claude."

It doesn't require you to believe anything. It is not a modern version of any slogan. It's simply that, anthropic will allow government clients to use Claude if anthropic are convinced it's for certain, listed purposes. You are looking at this and approaching it ass-backwards.

It used to be a forbidden use case, or not an expresssly permitted one, for governments to use Claude to fight human trafficking.

Now it expressly permitted. You don't have to drink kool aid to understand this.

The Kansas city FBI field office's human task force, can now get some api keys, as long as they can convince anthropic that it's for a "catch a predator" sting.