Anthropic is pitching its own AI safety bill to US lawmakers, Politico reports

Anthropic has quietly shown members of Congress a draft federal bill on frontier AI safety, Politico reported on 16 October, citing three people with knowledge of the effort. According to the report, the government could block a model's release or use only if it posed a foreseeable, imminent risk of more than $1 billion in damage or of killing or seriously injuring more than 50 people, through a biological weapon, a cyberattack or the model escaping its developer's control. Only the Commerce Department could ask a federal judge in Washington to halt a model, and other agencies would be barred from doing so. Labs would also have to test their models, publish findings and use independent evaluators registered with Commerce, who must report an imminent risk within 72 hours. An Anthropic spokesperson told Reuters the bill reflects its Advanced AI Framework published earlier this year.