Posit AI Pass Responsible Use Policy

Purpose and Scope

This Responsible Use Policy ("Policy") sets out how we expect Posit AI to be used responsibly, and describes the commitments Posit Software, PBC ("Posit," "we," or "us") makes as a provider of Posit AI. This Policy supplements, and should be read together with, the Posit AI Service Terms and the Posit Acceptable Use Policy (the "AUP").

Posit is a Delaware Public Benefit Corporation and a Certified B Corporation. Those structures commit us to weigh the interests of all of our stakeholders - users, employees, the open-source community, and the public - alongside the interests of our shareholders. This Policy is one expression of that commitment as applied to artificial intelligence.

Our Principles

We build and offer Posit AI to help data scientists, researchers, and analysts do their work more effectively, not to replace human judgment. In doing so, we aim to:

• Keep humans in charge. Posit AI is a tool to assist people, not to make final decisions on their behalf.
• Be transparent. We disclose what Posit AI is, how it processes your Content, and what its limitations are, and we support you in being similarly transparent with the people affected by your use of it.
• Protect privacy. We minimize what we retain, and we ask you to avoid feeding sensitive personal information into the service in the first place.
• Support reproducible, trustworthy work. Because so many of you use Posit AI in research and analysis meant to be trusted and reproduced by others, we care about the integrity of AI-assisted work as much as its convenience.
• Stay open. Consistent with our roots in open-source software, we favor visibility into how Posit AI works and welcome scrutiny and feedback from our community.

Prohibited Uses

In addition to the restrictions already described in the Service Terms and the AUP, you may not use Posit AI, or help anyone else use Posit AI, to:

• Generate or spread deliberate disinformation, or depict a real person's voice, image, or identity without their consent;
• Make, or help make, a decision that has a legal or similarly significant effect on a person, including, for example, decisions about employment, credit, insurance, housing, healthcare, or access to government benefits, without meaningful human review;
• Discriminate against, harass, or incite harm against any individual or group;
• Circumvent Posit AI's safety features, content filters, or usage limits, or prompt Posit AI to act outside these guidelines;
• Build or operate any system whose purpose is to select or engage a target for a weapon without human authorization and control;
• Represent Posit AI's output as human-generated, or omit disclosure of AI assistance where a law, professional standard, publisher, or institution requires it.

Using Posit AI Responsibly

If you use Posit AI in a way that could meaningfully affect a person's rights, health, safety, or finances, you are responsible for assessing that risk and putting in place the human oversight, testing, and safeguards the use case warrants. This matters in particular to the many of you who work in regulated or high-stakes settings, including financial services, insurance, pharmaceutical research, healthcare, and the public sector.

More generally, we ask that you:

• Verify before you rely. Posit AI's output is generated probabilistically and can be inaccurate, incomplete, or inappropriate for your use case. Review AI-assisted code, analysis, and conclusions the way you would review any other unverified source, especially before publishing, reporting, or acting on them.
• Disclose AI's role in your work. Where you use Posit AI to materially contribute to research, code, or written work intended for others, consider whether the norms of your field, institution, or publication call for disclosing that contribution.
• Keep sensitive data out. As the Service Terms already require, do not input health information, financial information, government identification numbers, or other highly sensitive data into Posit AI.
• Know your own obligations. You remain responsible for complying with the laws that apply to your use of Posit AI, including AI-specific laws such as the EU AI Act, wherever you use it.

What We Commit to Doing

Responsible AI is not only a set of obligations for Posit AI users, it is a standard we hold ourselves to as well. We commit to:

• Maintaining a Zero Data Retention agreements with our third-party model providers, so your Content is not retained or used to train their models;
• Monitoring the laws and regulatory guidance applicable to AI, including the EU AI Act, GDPR, and relevant U.S. state frameworks, and adjusting how we operate Posit AI accordingly;
• Publishing this Policy and revising it as our understanding, and the technology, evolves;
• Listening to feedback from our users, employees, and the open-source community on how Posit AI should behave, consistent with our stakeholder governance commitments as a B Corp; and
• Being honest with you about what Posit AI can and cannot do well.

Enforcement

We may investigate suspected violations of this Policy and take action consistent with the Service Terms and the AUP, including suspending or terminating access to Posit AI. Nothing in this Policy limits the rights Posit already has under the Service Terms and AUP.

Updates to This Policy

We may update this Policy from time to time to reflect changes in Posit AI, the law, or our own practices. We will post the revised Policy at [insert URL] and update the date above. Your continued use of Posit AI after a revised Policy is posted means you accept the changes.

Questions or Concerns

If you have questions about this Policy, or want to raise a concern about how Posit AI is being used, please contact Support or visit our Trust Center.