Anthropic is pitching Congress its own AI safety bill, report says

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Anthropic's proposed AI safety bill only kicks in if 50 deaths or $1B in damages

🤖Anthropic wants the government to stop dangerous AI but only under strict conditions Anthropic is quietly pitching US lawmakers its own AI safety bill, proposing rules that would make it possible to halt an AI model’s release in narrowly defined, high-risk situations. According to Politico, the draft would allow intervention only when a model poses a foreseeable and imminent threat of causing more than $1 billion in damage or killing or seriously injuring more than 50 people. The risks would need to involve biological weapons, cyberattacks or an AI model bypassing its developer’s safeguards. The proposal would also require independent evaluators registered with the US Department of Commerce to assess frontier AI models. If they identify a qualifying imminent risk, they would have 72 hours after completing their assessment to report it to the department. Only a federal judge could order a model’s suspension, following action initiated through the Commerce Department. Other government agencies would be barred from independently halting its development or deployment. Anthropic says the proposal reflects its broader Advanced AI Framework. The company wants a mechanism to stop genuinel