Anthropic circulates draft AI safety bill among US lawmakers
Anthropic is circulating draft legislation that would establish federal safety and security rules for the most powerful artificial intelligence models, the Claude developer confirmed Friday.
The proposal would allow the US Commerce Department to seek a federal court order blocking a model’s release or use when it presents a foreseeable and imminent risk of killing or seriously injuring more than 50 people or causing more than $1 billion in damage. Politico reported that qualifying threats would have to arise from a biological weapon, a cyberattack or a model evading its developer’s controls.
Frontier AI developers would be required to test their models, disclose findings publicly, maintain security programs and submit to independent evaluations. Evaluators registered with the Commerce Department would periodically assess companies and their models, and would have to report an “imminent …