Acceptable Use

Use of AI models are subject to the terms of conditions of each model provider. Read Model Details for more information.

Guidance Document for LBNL Employees

Cyber Security has published a document providing Guidance on using Generative AI Tools

LBNL Staff should familiarize themselves with the issues described above.

Not for Critical Infrastructure

CBORG AI Services are for research purposes only and not intended to support critical infrastructure at Berkeley Lab. If you need build critical infrastructure using AI services similar to CBORG, please contact Science IT to discuss your needs.

Potential Errors and Bias

The IT Division and Science IT group makes strives to provide AI models that are stable and free of bias. However, AI models are trained on large amounts of data which make include inaccurate and biased content. As a result, AI models may produce biased, inaccurate or toxic outputs. AI models produce statistical approximations of correct answers that may resemble correct answers but are in fact completely erroneous, which are generally referred to as “hallucinations”.

Logging and Data Inspection

IT Division staff will not intentionally log or inspect inputs and outputs of CBORG models, except on an as-needed basis to support the security, stability and efficiency of the services. Please do not use these services to process personal information.

Third Party Data Processing

Use of AI models hosted in commercial cloud providers (including Google Gemini, OpenAI ChatGPT and Anthropic Claude) will cause your data to be sent to external parties, where it may be subjected to human review.

Users are are responsible for understanding any IP-related issues with data sent to any CBORG service.

Protection of Personal-Information

CBORG services should not be used to process any personal information, prudent-to-protect information, confidential unclassified information (CUI) or classified information. If you need to process PII or HIPPA information please contact Science IT to discuss your needs for secure computing.

Additional Terms and Conditions

Usage of IT infrastructure at Berkeley Lab is subject to the Berkeley Lab’s Terms and Conditions .