Anthropic Spent the Year Saying AI Labs Can't Check Their Own Homework. Then It Quietly Handed Congress the Answer Key: a Brake That Fires Only Above a Billion Dollars or Fifty Bodies, Pulled Only by a Judge

Podcast: Minds, Bodies, and Terawatts · Patrick Deglon

Opublikowano: 2026-10-19

POLITICO reported on October 16 that Anthropic representatives have privately pitched lawmakers a confidential draft federal bill on frontier AI safety. The draft would let the government block a model's release or use only for a foreseeable, imminent risk of more than $1 billion in damages or more than 50 deaths or serious injuries, from a bioweapon, a model escaping its developer's controls, or a cyberattack; it would run oversight through lab-paid evaluators registered with Commerce, require a federal judge to order any suspension, bar other agencies from acting, and preempt some state AI laws. Anthropic says the bill translates the Advanced...