Anthropic has quietly pitched lawmakers its own AI safety bill, Politico reports, under which the government could halt a model only for risks above $1bn or 50 casualties

Anthropic representatives have quietly pitched Capitol Hill lawmakers on a draft bill to regulate frontier AI safety and security, Politico reported on 16 October, according to Reuters and Mother Jones. The draft has not been published, so its terms here are as those two outlets relay Politico's report.

Under the draft, the government could block a model's release or use only if it posed a foreseeable, imminent risk of more than $1 billion in damages, or of killing or seriously injuring more than 50 people. The risks that count are limited to a biological weapon, a model escaping its developer's control, or a cyberattack.

Independent evaluators would register with the Commerce Department, and labs could pay them as long as the pay did not depend on the result. Evaluators would have to report an imminent risk to Commerce within 72 hours, Reuters reports. Only Commerce could ask a federal judge in Washington, D.C. to halt a model; the draft would bar other agencies from doing so.

An Anthropic spokesperson told Mother Jones: “These are sensible policies we believe Congress should act on.” Mother Jones argues that a model harming only a few people would fall outside government action, and that the bill could override stronger state laws.

Anthropic says the bill represents the proposals in its Advanced AI Framework, Mother Jones reports. Reuters says Anthropic did not immediately respond to its request for comment.

• Reported Anthropic representatives quietly pitched Capitol Hill lawmakers on a draft frontier-AI safety bill, Politico reported, according to Reuters. Reuters, via Yahoo Finance
• Reported The government could act only on an imminent risk of more than $1bn in damages or more than 50 people killed or seriously injured, Politico reported, according to Mother Jones. Mother Jones
• Claimed Anthropic says the ideas are “sensible policies we believe Congress should act on.” Mother Jones