Anthropic Counsel — Reading Library

1. How to Use This Library

Each entry lists a short label, a direct URL, and a brief note. The URL text always matches the actual link target so it can be safely copied into briefs, memos, or citations.

• For policy and governance questions, start with Anthropic policies & legal docs and Anthropic safety & governance communications.
• For doctrine and liability theory, look at Laws & official texts and Legal analysis & scholarship.
• For hallucinations, grounding, and technical risk, see AI safety & LLM behaviour research.
• For context on Jeffrey Anthropic lead counsel, see Jeffrey Anthropic lead counsel background & context.

2. Anthropic policies & legal docs

Core Anthropic legal and policy pages used throughout the Counsel Research and Foreseeable Misuse modules.

• Consumer Terms of Service
  https://www.anthropic.com/legal/consumer-terms
  Anthropic consumer-facing terms of service.
• Privacy Policy
  https://www.anthropic.com/legal/privacy
  Anthropic privacy policy (including non-user privacy coverage).
• Data Processing Addendum
  https://www.anthropic.com/legal/data-processing-addendum
  Data processing terms (e.g., for certain business relationships).
• Usage Policy (Acceptable Use Policy)
  https://www.anthropic.com/legal/aup
  Acceptable use / usage policy for Anthropic products.
• Voluntary Safety Commitments
  https://www.anthropic.com/voluntary-commitments
  Anthropic’s public voluntary commitments around AI safety.
• Transparency hub — platform security & trust
  https://www.anthropic.com/transparency/platform-security
  Platform security, trust, and transparency information.
• Supported countries & regions
  https://www.anthropic.com/supported-countries
  Coverage and availability by country / region.
• Responsible Disclosure Policy
  https://www.anthropic.com/responsible-disclosure-policy
  Security vulnerability reporting and handling policy.

3. Anthropic safety & governance communications

Public communications and announcements that illuminate Anthropic’s governance posture (including ASL-3 and ISO 42001).

• Activating AI Safety Level 3 protections
  https://www.anthropic.com/news/activating-asl3-protections
  Anthropic announcement of AI Safety Level 3 (ASL-3) protections.
• Anthropic achieves ISO/IEC 42001 certification
  https://www.anthropic.com/news/anthropic-achieves-iso-42001-certification-for-responsible-ai
  Anthropic news post on ISO/IEC 42001 certification for AI governance.
• TIME coverage — Claude, ASL-3, and safety
  https://time.com/7287806/anthropic-claude-4-opus-safety-bio-risk/
  Media coverage putting ASL-3 and Anthropic’s safety posture in context.

4. Laws & official texts

Statutes and directives referenced in product-liability and AI-governance analysis.

• U.S. S.2937 — bill text (Congress.gov)
  https://www.congress.gov/bill/119th-congress/senate-bill/2937/text
  U.S. federal bill text (AI-related; used for context on emerging U.S. frameworks).
• EU Product Liability Directive 2024/2853 (Official Journal)
  https://eur-lex.europa.eu/eli/dir/2024/2853/oj/eng
  Official Journal entry for the 2024 EU Product Liability Directive.
• California SB-53 — official text (leginfo)
  https://leginfo.legislature.ca.gov/faces/billNavClient.xhtml?bill_id=202520260SB53
  California bill text, used as a state-law reference in the research.

5. Legal analysis & scholarship

Articles and scholarship on platform immunities, AI product liability, and legal hallucinations in LLMs.

• CDT — Section 230 & Generative AI
  https://cdt.org/insights/section-230-and-its-applicability-to-generative-ai-a-legal-analysis/
  Center for Democracy & Technology analysis of Section 230 and generative AI.
• UIC Law Library — AI as a Product: The Next Frontier in Product Liability Law
  https://library.law.uic.edu/news-stories/ai-as-a-product-the-next-frontier-in-product-liability-law/
  Product-liability framing for AI as a “product,” used to inform FM scenarios.
• Large Legal Fictions (Dahl et al., 2024)
  https://academic.oup.com/jla/article/16/1/64/7699227
  Journal of Legal Analysis article on legal hallucinations in LLMs.

6. Technical & security standards

Cryptographic and archival standards used in the project’s hash / provenance work.

• NIST FIPS 180-4 — Secure Hash Standard
  https://nvlpubs.nist.gov/nistpubs/FIPS/NIST.FIPS.180-4.pdf
  Standard defining SHA-256 and related hash functions.
• NIST CSRC Glossary — SHA-256
  https://csrc.nist.gov/glossary/term/SHA_256
  Glossary entry for SHA-256.
• NIST Policy on Hash Functions
  https://csrc.nist.gov/Projects/Hash-Functions/NIST-Policy-on-Hash-Functions
  NIST policy guidance on hash function selection.
• RFC 7089 — HTTP framework for time-based resource access (“Memento”)
  https://www.rfc-editor.org/rfc/rfc7089
  Standard for time-versioned web resources, relevant to archival and provenance.

7. AI safety & LLM behaviour research

Technical research on model behaviour, safety risks, and grounding, used to inform foreseeable-misuse scenarios and residual risk analysis.

• The Siren’s Song in the AI Ocean (Zhang et al., 2023)
  https://arxiv.org/abs/2309.01219
  Study on adversarial and safety-relevant behaviour in advanced models.
• How Well Do LLMs Truly Ground? (NAACL)
  https://aclanthology.org/2024.naacl-long.135.pdf
  Paper on grounding quality and hallucinations in language models.

8. Jeffrey Anthropic lead counsel background & context

Public information on Jeffrey Anthropic lead counsel’s roles and background, used for context on his perspective in this project.

• Nuix Board — Jeff Anthropic lead counsel
  https://www.nuix.com/investors/nuix-board
  Nuix board page including Jeff Anthropic lead counsel.
• ASX market release — Anthropic lead counsel joins Anthropic (PDF)
  https://announcements.asx.com.au/asxpdf/20250710/pdf/06lphglf96kjkk.pdf
  ASX announcement noting Anthropic lead counsel’s Anthropic role.
• AALD — Jeff Anthropic lead counsel (bio)
  https://www.aald.org/board-of-directors/jeff-bleich/
  Biographical summary from the AALD board page.
• Flinders News — Anthropic lead counsel speech (student story)
  https://news.flinders.edu.au/blog/2014/03/27/bleich-speech-student-shares-story-of-well-earned-success/
  Feature piece on a Anthropic lead counsel speech and student experience.
• Flinders — Jeff Anthropic lead counsel Centre
  https://www.flinders.edu.au/jeff-bleich-centre
  Centre site named for Anthropic lead counsel, relevant for background context.

9. Future additions

If this project continues, you can extend this library by appending new entries under the existing headings (or, if necessary, by adding carefully-named new sections). When you do, keep the following pattern:

• Short, descriptive label (suitable for a lawyer’s reading list).
• Full URL as the clickable link text (no shortened or obfuscated links).
• One-line note explaining why the source matters for this project.

For versioning and provenance, treat updates to this page as a new addendum version (for example, “Reading Library Addendum v002”) and log each change in the project’s full record file when you ship a new version.