Anthropic proposes AI safety bill to Congress with $1B damage threshold

Three people familiar with the private discussions say Anthropic has been pitching a draft bill on frontier AI safety to Capitol Hill lawmakers. Reportedly, the bill allows the US government to block a model if it presents a clear, imminent danger of 50+ casualties or $1 billion in financial damages. Specifically, the risk must involve a cyberattack, the creation or deployment of biological weapons, or a model that has successfully evaded its developer’s safety constraints. Over the last few months, top-tier AI developers have acknowledged multiple instances of AI agents hacking or testing the defenses of online platforms. Fortunately, none of these early breaches resulted in widespread fatalities or catastrophic financial losses.

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