Anthropic Pitches Federal AI Safety Bill to Lawmakers

Oct 16, 2026
Anthropic has privately presented lawmakers with a draft bill that would regulate frontier AI models while restricting when the government could block their release or use.
Anthropic Pitches Federal AI Safety Bill to Lawmakers

Anthropic representatives have privately presented lawmakers with a draft bill covering frontier AI safety and security, according to Politico. The proposal would limit when the government could block the release or use of an advanced model and would override some state AI safety laws.

Under the draft, the government could intervene only if a model poses a foreseeable and imminent risk of more than $1 billion in damages, or could kill or seriously injure more than 50 people. The risk also must involve the creation or release of a biological weapon, a model evading its developer's controls, or a cyberattack.

Anthropic said the draft reflects proposals in its Advanced AI Framework, which it has promoted to federal and state lawmakers since June. The thresholds resemble provisions in California's SB 53, which became law last year.

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