Anthropic Spent the Year Saying AI Labs Can't Check Their Own Homework. Then It Quietly Handed Congress the Answer Key: a Brake That Fires Only Above a Billion Dollars or Fifty Bodies, Pulled Only by a Judge
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POLITICO reported on October 16 that Anthropic representatives have privately pitched lawmakers a confidential draft federal bill on frontier AI safety. The draft would let the government block a model's release or use only for a foreseeable, imminent risk of more than $1 billion in damages or more than 50 deaths or serious injuries, from a bioweapon, a model escaping its developer's controls, or a cyberattack; it would run oversight through lab-paid evaluators registered with Commerce, require a federal judge to order any suspension, bar other agencies from acting, and preempt some state AI laws. Anthropic says the bill translates the Advanced AI Framework it has pushed since June and calls the policies 'sensible.'
