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title: "Introducing the Life Sciences Verification Program"
description: "The Life Sciences Verification Program (LSVP) opens beta access to Mythos, Opus, and Sonnet models for verified life science teams whose work may be blocked by generally available Fable models. Applicants undergo review of research credentials, security standards, and ethical oversight, then may receive annual Standard Use grants or six-month, project-specific High-risk Use grants. Standard Use employs more permissive biology classifiers across research, clinical, manufacturing, and other workflows, while High-risk Use removes life-science safeguards for specifically vetted projects; cyber safeguards remain. The program shifts enforcement from request-level blocking to offline monitoring of behavioral patterns, requiring 30-day retention of flagged-activity data, compartmentalized from training and life sciences research teams. Access is available through API, Claude Science, Claude.ai, Claude Code, and Enterprise or Team plans, but not individual plans, third-party platforms, or BAA-enabled organizations during beta."
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# Introducing the Life Sciences Verification Program

[Anthropic](https://yomu.fyi/company/anthropic) · Sep 17, 2026

**Type:** Announcement

## Summary

The Life Sciences Verification Program (LSVP) opens beta access to Mythos, Opus, and Sonnet models for verified life science teams whose work may be blocked by generally available Fable models. Applicants undergo review of research credentials, security standards, and ethical oversight, then may receive annual Standard Use grants or six-month, project-specific High-risk Use grants. Standard Use employs more permissive biology classifiers across research, clinical, manufacturing, and other workflows, while High-risk Use removes life-science safeguards for specifically vetted projects; cyber safeguards remain. The program shifts enforcement from request-level blocking to offline monitoring of behavioral patterns, requiring 30-day retention of flagged-activity data, compartmentalized from training and life sciences research teams. Access is available through API, Claude Science, Claude.ai, Claude Code, and Enterprise or Team plans, but not individual plans, third-party platforms, or BAA-enabled organizations during beta.

## Context

LSVP is a beta program for teams and institutions in the life sciences, including academic labs, startups, and pharmaceutical companies. It uses shared responsibility: organizations specify intended use cases, while usage is monitored for activity outside the approved scope and may be flagged to administrators for remediation.

## Approach / What changed

The program combines applicant verification with two grant types. Standard Use supports broad team workloads and renews annually, while High-risk Use applies to a single project, requires additional vetting, and renews every six months. Safeguards rely on offline pattern monitoring rather than only real-time request blocking, with 30-day retention for flagged-activity review and continued compartmentalization of that data.

## Takeaways

- Standard Use grants support broad life science workflows and provide access to Mythos, Opus, and Sonnet models with classifiers more permissive for science tasks.
- High-risk Use is limited to specifically vetted projects and removes safeguards that block life sciences requests; it does not remove other safeguards such as cyber classifiers.
- LSVP monitors usage against each organization’s stated use cases and requires 30-day retention of data associated with flagged activity, which is not used for model training.

## FAQ

### How do Standard Use and High-risk Use grants differ?

Standard Use grants cover diverse daily workloads for an entire team and are renewed annually. High-risk Use grants cover work blocked under Standard Use, apply to a single research project, require additional vetting, and are renewed every six months.

### Why does LSVP use offline monitoring instead of only real-time blocking?

Potentially serious misuse can be distributed across requests and sessions, making behavioral patterns easier to identify through offline monitoring. This permits legitimate work to proceed with fewer interruptions but requires 30-day retention of data associated with flagged activity.

### Where is LSVP available during the beta?

It is available for API usage in the first-party console and through Claude for Enterprise and Team plans, including Claude Science, Claude.ai, and Claude Code surfaces. Individual plans, third-party platforms, and BAA-enabled organizations are not supported during the beta.

**Tags:** [AI](https://yomu.fyi/topic/ai), [Safety](https://yomu.fyi/topic/safety), [Security](https://yomu.fyi/topic/security)

- Source: [Anthropic](https://www.anthropic.com/news/life-sciences-verification-program)
- Source URL: https://www.anthropic.com/news/life-sciences-verification-program
- Ingested by Yomu: 2026-09-17T18:00:13.746Z

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