Anthropic pushes draft AI safety bill
What happened
On 21 October 2026, TechCrunch reported that Anthropic is pitching a draft AI safety bill to the US Congress. The draft would allow a model's release to be blocked when it poses a foreseeable, imminent risk that could cause more than 50 deaths or over $1 billion in property damage, and the risk stems from biological weapons, the model escaping developer control or cyber attacks. The draft is still at the stage of being pitched to Congress, and the report did not say whether it has won lawmakers' support or entered the legislative process.
Written by AI from the reports · updated 2 h ago
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- TechCrunch · AIAnthropic pitches AI safety bill that may block a model if 50+ people could be killed
The proposed policy seems to offer protections against AI run amok but actually forbids federal agencies from blocking a model's release without the permission of a judge.
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