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claim	ai-alignment	Once AI models are deployed in government secure enclaves, vendors have no ability to access, alter, or shut down the model, eliminating all post-deployment safety oversight	proven	Judge Lin, Anthropic v. US preliminary injunction (N.D. Cal. March 26, 2026), unrebutted evidence	2026-05-12	Post-deployment vendor control is zero in secure enclave AI deployments making training-time alignment the sole available safety mechanism	theseus	ai-alignment/2026-04-xx-joneswalker-orwell-card-post-delivery-control-injunction.md	structural	Jones Walker LLP	formal-verification-of-AI-generated-proofs-provides-scalable-oversight-that-human-review-cannot-match	voluntary-safety-pledges-cannot-survive-competitive-pressure-because-unilateral-commitments-are-structurally-punished-when-competitors-advance-without-equivalent-constraints	scalable-oversight-degrades-rapidly-as-capability-gaps-grow-with-debate-achieving-only-50-percent-success-at-moderate-gaps formal-verification-of-AI-generated-proofs-provides-scalable-oversight-that-human-review-cannot-match ai-company-ethical-restrictions-are-contractually-penetrable-through-multi-tier-deployment-chains

Post-deployment vendor control is zero in secure enclave AI deployments making training-time alignment the sole available safety mechanism

Judge Lin found that Anthropic submitted unrebutted evidence that 'once Claude is deployed inside government-secure enclaves, Anthropic has no ability to access, alter, or shut down the model.' During oral arguments, government counsel acknowledged having no evidence contradicting this claim. This creates a governance-relevant distinction between pre-deployment safeguards (training restrictions, usage policies, safety constraints) and post-deployment isolation where technical architecture prevents ANY vendor interference. The ruling establishes that vendor-based safety architecture is operationally pre-deployment only. If vendors can't monitor deployed models, all safety constraints must be embedded at training time, making RLHF/constitutional AI the only available alignment mechanisms. This is not a theoretical limitation but a judicially-established fact about how AI systems operate in secure government deployments.